Word: medical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for the farmer's plight is not, as TIME seems to imply, failure to put a duty on Brazil's babassu nut. Prime reason is compulsory pasteurization of milk in all major markets. Familiar is everyone with the cry of the orthodox medic that pasteurization kills disease bacteria which might be present in milk. Unfamiliar is the average person with the fact that lactic acid-producing bacteria normally present in milk are likewise killed, retarding souring, making milk a semi-perishable which may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow, average city...
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...wondering if the studios are going to continue to thrill the public with inside stories of the medical profession. You know, we do have pride, and to see ourselves so carelessly portrayed is somewhat disconcerting. Fortunately, the vast majority are as ignorant as the directors. In [the cinema] Men in White, particularly, there are several outstanding mistakes. First of all, in doing intravenous work it is of paramount necessity that the tourniquet be removed -a little item Dr. Gable forgot; secondly, a surgeon never operates on an unanesthetized person, as was the case in this picture-evidenced by the perfectly...
Limited in its experiments by the fact that animals are immune to yellow fever, the commission was forced to consider the theory of an eccentric Scottish medic history. who had an unsubstantiated notion that yellow fever was transmitted from human to human by mosquitoes. The commissioners tested Dr. Carlos Finlay's theory on themselves. Dr. Carroll caught yellow jack from one of the Finlay mosquitoes. Dr. Lazear died of it. Even then their experiments were scientifically incomplete. Dr. Reed called for four soldiers to volunteer as human guinea pigs. Two of them got bites from Finlay mosquitoes. The other...
...doctor's code of ethics has long insisted that important medic la discoveries should be kept free to benefit all people. Under the circumstances, it is surprising to find that an Associate Professor in the Harvard School of Public Health should have patented his contribution to the long history of respirator development. It is even more surprising that he should have seen fit to accept royalties for the monopoly of this lifesaving device, which he had transferred to Warren E. Collins, Inc. The transaction suggests a distinct flare for business in this Medical School teacher, inasmuch as he had done...