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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done well for 13 months after a heart attack must pay annually $100 to $125 per $1,000 of insurance as against $40 for a man in full health. The penalty drops with longevity: at 60, he may be paying only $15 to $20 additional. Last week, physicians for the Equitable Life Assurance Society listed four steps that may promote a cardiac's survival and insurability: cut down excess weight, blood cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking...
...often after major surgery, especially among elderly patients in accident cases, there is truth in the sour jest that the operation was a success but the patient died. Last week, in the London medical journal Lancet, two physicians described a method of treatment that slashed the death rate among such patients at Birmingham Accident Hospital in England's Midlands...
...Boston last week, famed Grocers S. S. Pierce & Co. were doing a brisk business in an item whose output is sharply limited: "Honegar," a fifty-fifty mixture of honey and apple-cider vinegar, compounded by Mrs. Catherine Perry, using frontier-housewife techniques, at Hartland Four Corners, Vt. And all over the U.S., booksellers were doing equally brisk business with an item in seemingly unlimited demand as well as supply: Folk Medicine, by D. C. Jarvis...
...there is no limit to the ailments for which Dr. Jarvis offers the honey-vinegar panacea, so there is no limit to starry-eyed consumers' demand: more than 245,000 copies of Folk Medicine had been sold by last week, and countless readers had written testimonials to Dr. Jarvis...
...Position on last week's list...