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Deceived by press reports, Joseph C. Bloodgood, cancer expert (Johns Hopkins) spoke: "The ordinary amount of sunlight is practically never a cause of cancer. A cancer may develop from burns on the skin by the sunlight but at any stage before the cancer stage is reached, the progress of the affliction may easily be halted. The brown spots that come on the face or neck of farmers or any one who is exposed much to the sun, wind and rain may ultimately become cancers, but not at all necessarily so. They quite often are allowed to go neglected until they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Surgery. Spinal anesthesia by new chemicals. Anesthesia per rectum by ether with olive oil, particularly useful where exophthalmic goitre makes a patient nervous. Human liver found to exercise a profound protective influence against harmful products entering the blood by way of the intestinal canal. Recognition that brain tumors may develop suddenly and rapidly, that the electric cautery knife makes possible more complete removal of brain and spinal cord tumors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...will be difficult for the average citizen to believe that there is much zeal and eagerness on the part of the Secretary of the Treasury to secure adequate enforcement if he refuses this opportunity to develop and carry out an adequate program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Money No Object | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...Speaking for those whom we represent, we respectfully request prompt reconsideration and earnest support of the proposed appropriation. Otherwise the questions inevitably arise. First, Does the Treasury Department sincerely desire efficient enforcement? Second, Is it unable to develop an adequate program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Money No Object | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...animal's appetite usually increases with the time it has gone without food. But there seems to be an increasing number of human animals who do not develop an appetite even when undernourished. Professor Anton Julius Carlson, physiologist of the University of Chicago, has found out this animal anomaly and stated so to Chicago dietitians last week. It may explain why office clerks, shoppers, draymen and school children seem to be increasingly satisfied with a sandwich-and-milkshake lunch at the widespreading U. S. "sandwich bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Whence Hunger | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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