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P: The osteopaths of Bay City, Mich, thought they had a victory: the city commission had voted to let them treat their patients in the municipally owned general hospital on an equal footing with M.D.s. But the M.D.s refused to send any more patients to the hospital as long as the osteopaths were in; last week, when hospital receipts had dropped from $2,300 to $900 a day, the commission threw the osteopaths out again.

P: New Orleans' Dr. George E. Burch reported that while any excess heat is especially hard on heart patients (it has the same effect as overexertion), intermittent heat is the worst. Heart patients, he said, are safer in a place where it gets hot gradually and stays hot--such as New Orleans.

P:A comparison of actual birth dates with the dates predicted by doctors in Palo Alto showed only one forecast in 40 correct to the day. Chief conclusion: two-thirds of the time, the baby arrives later than the doctor says it will.

P:As dean of Yale's medical school to succeed Physiologist C. N. Hugh Long, trustees named Yaleman Vernon W. Lippard, 46, a pediatrician.

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