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extracted text: NEW DRUG APPEARS EFFECTIVE AGAINST HAY EVER A new drug that has given good results to some 500 patients in combating hay fever created considerable interest among doctors who attended a recent meeting of the American Academy of Al lergy. The drug is called allpyral, a short term for “alum.precipitated pyridine-ragweed complex” In practice, allpyral is used to desensitize pa tients who get hay fever from ragweed pollen be fore the hay fever season arrives. It differs from standard aqueous pollen extracts in that it con tains the pollen oils as well as the proteins. Allpyral is absorbed slowly by the body, and physicians can therefore give much larger doses of it at one time. This means that the number of infections can be reduced. From present indica tions it appears that one injection of allpyral every four to six weeks is sufficient. With the aqueous solutions, one injection a week is usually needed. In the 500 or more patients already studied in the United States, 89 to 93 per cent have shownimprovement. With standard aqueous solutions, about 80 to 85 per cent improve. * * * a foreign policy that is out dated and no longer work able. These then are some of the thoughts that a former diplomat, turned business man and armchair diploma tic analyst, offers to those who are presently in charge of charting and steering our country’s course in the tur bulent sea of world affairs. These views may not find ready concurrence, especially among the uninitiated and uninformed. But in the diffi cult business of providing one’s country with the best possible of such courses and of trying to keep to it, we opn only ignore these realities at great risk. 72 Panorama
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