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P:Most acne sufferers waste their time and money looking for magical skin nostrums. The University of Virginia's Dr. Clayton E. Wheeler, writing in the current G.P., the magazine of the American Academy of General Practice, offers simpier advice: use ordinary toilet soap. Only in severe cases of inflammatory skin disease is a doctor's prescription necessary. People bothered with any sort of acne, however, should avoid letting furs and woolens come in contact with the skin and should keep away from oils and greases. Since acne yields slowly, Wheeler also warns that the treatment must be persistent and the patients patient. P:The Kentucky Health Department has asked the state assembly to enact drastic anti-tuberculosis legislation. The proposed bill would: 1) require a medical examination of people suspected of having infectious TB, 2) set up locked sections in state TB sanatoriums for victims of infectious TB who refuse voluntary isolation, 3) give health officers authority to confine violators of the act in a state TB hospital for from 30 days to six months.* Said Health Commissioner Bruce Underwood: "This legislation makes it a crime to spread tuberculosis." P:General Electric's X-ray department in Milwaukee announced this week that, in cooperation with both government and private organizations, it would produce a new 6,000,000-volt electron gun for treating cancer. The gun was designed by Professor Edward L. Ginzton, head of Stanford's Microwave Laboratory, and Radiologist Henry S. Kaplan of Stanford Medical School. Treating cancer with X-rays has always been a tricky business, due to the danger of radiation injuries to healthy tissue while trying to reach the cancerous areas. The new gun, using high-voltage rays, minimizes the danger of injuring skin and bone marrow. As electron guns go, it is a pocket-size model--only 6 ft. long.

-If the health officers are efficient, the legislature will soon have to appropriate funds for more TB beds in state hospitals. The 750 beds available at present are far short of the number of estimated cases.

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