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¶ Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists and president of the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, was suspicious of white bread. Dr. Carlson pointed an accusing finger at nitrogen trichloride, a bleaching agent used in 90% of all white flour milled in the U.S. The bleaching agent makes wheat protein act like a nerve poison; dogs given large amounts of the bleached flour developed running fits. It may make people nervous, too, reported Dr. Carlson—and may even make it easier for them to become alcoholics. Said he: "Maybe we should provide, without delay, more iron in the education of our children, and less nerve poison in their bread."
¶ Girls react more violently to stresses & strains than boys, but they relax and recover more quickly. This difference probably explains why men are more likely to have stomach ulcers than women, declared Dr. L. W. Sontag, of the Fels Research Institute at Yellow Springs, Ohio.
¶ Treatment of asthma, hay fever and other allergy diseases has become too easy with new and powerful anti-histaminic drugs, warned Dr. Charles P. Huttrer of Manhattan's Warner Institute for Therapeutic Research. The danger is that doctors are inclined to ignore possible secondary effects of the drugs. Such "histaminoid accidents" cause allergic reactions elsewhere in the body, may make the cure worse than the disease.