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The doctor who accidentally discovered this remedy put it through tests for several years to demonstrate its merit and safety, used as directed, before unselfishly giving it to the public. Apparently, this doctor realized, that if he made his discovery known to the medical profession only it would encounter unreasoning prejudice and that countless sufferers would never hear of it. So he gave it to humanity without charge. . . .
It seems to me TIME took a little too much for granted, reported only what it was told by prejudiced parties, failed to present the subject impartially.
OLIVER W. MEEKER Los Angeles, Calif.
Sirs:
. . . The basis of the cure is most insecure and you are perfectly correct in publishing; the warning as you have. I have been questioned by many patients regarding this preparation, and have seen a few. of the burns it produces. The Food and Drug Administration should put "phenol-camphor 50-50" on the dangerous drug list.
L. F. HEIMBURGER, M.D, Springfield, Mo.
Sirs:
, . . When phenol-camphor is prescribed, it should be prescribed by a physician. The indiscriminate use of this combination has already resulted in several casualties among: my patients, some of them of a severe nature.
CHARLES C. DENNIE, M.D. Kansas City, Mo.
Sirs :
... I personally have been consulted by six patients suffering severe injury from use of this mixture. The Journal of the American Medical Association has been frantically apologizing for publishing this discovery. ... I think you have done the public a service in exposing such prostitution and distortion of medical facts.
ANDREW L. GLAZE, M.D. Birmingham, Ala.
Guidance
Sirs:
. . . You state that I "prepared" the pamphlet Notes for Your Guidance [TIME, July 27] issued to British flying cadets in the U.S. It embarrasses me to be given credit for the admirable work of another man. . . . Professor W. J. Hinton. . . .
WILLMOTT LEWIS The London Times Washington, D.C.
¶ The information that Sir Willmott was definitely not the author came after press time. All credit to British Ministry of Information's Wilfred John Hinton, 65, who will head the British Press Service in Manhattan when and if he reaches the U.S. On his first attempt he was shipwrecked and stranded in Iceland, returned to Lon don and was ordered to try again. — ED.