Capsules

P: As dean of the University of South Dakota's medical school.* Dr. Donald Slaughter experimented with pain-killing drugs, tried several on himself. Last week, Dr. Slaughter committed himself to a federal hospital as a narcotics addict.

P: Three Philadelphia researchers report that wounds treated with chlorophyll mend faster than those treated with penicillin or sulfa drugs. Further finding: a cut on the index finger heals faster than one on the pinky.

P: Most radiologists believe it beneath their dignity to treat corns. That, says Dr. Sydney J. Hawley of Seattle, is a mistake: one X-ray treatment will usually remove a corn, and it will not grow back for a year or more.

P: The A.M.A. named its "Family Doctor of 1951": Dr. Albert C. Yoder of Goshen, Ind. At 84, Yoder still goes to his office every: day, but admits that he slacks off on summer mornings to work in his garderu

* Where two human guinea pigs died because of a mistake in drug dosage last summer (TIME, Aug. 27).

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