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...commonest causes of skin ailments is home medication of assorted cuts, scratches and infections without waiting for a proper medical diagnosis, reported Dr. L. Edward Gaul of Evansville, Ind. Thus misused, practically any medication can cause trouble-and this includes the sulfas, antibiotics, local anesthetics and antihistaminics...
...though often unacknowledged, has been conceded by the late A. A. Brill, leading U.S. Freudian, who called him "the pioneer psychoanalyst in psychiatry." Freud thought that analysis was useful only in the milder forms of emotional illness (neurosis). Jung was among the first to use it to interpret schizophrenia, commonest of the most serious psychoses (which fills 300,000 hospital beds...
...they thought as they did, ministers most commonly cited their opinion that Roman Catholics "divinize" Mary. This, says Father Dougherty, is a "product of gross misunderstanding." The church, he points out, distinguishes between latria (the adoration due only to God) and dulia (the reverence appropriate to some creatures). Second commonest reason for Protestant dissent was the belief that Mary was mother of Christ the man, not Christ...
...Usually treated as an outpatient, she had been kept in the hospital a few days because of a cold and swelling in her lymph nodes. She was much better after a blood transfusion, and would probably be home before New Year's Day. Toni has acute leukemia, commonest of the cancers and related disorders that annually kill more U.S. children than any other group of diseases...
...council's commonest excuses for refusing U.S. proposals are that they would drain Japan's dollar reserves or that the industries concerned are "nonessential." In some cases the reasons make sense, e.g., a Coca-Cola bottling plant is hardly "essential." But in other cases the ban is unreasonable. Examples: ¶ When Studebaker-Packard Corp. wanted permission to erect an auto assembly plant, it argued that many of the cars would be exported, thus strengthening Japan's foreign exchange position. Though Studebaker even agreed not to convert its profits in Japan into dollars unless it also made money...