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...William Wilson Jameson, Chief Medical Officer of the British Ministry of Health, told Britons last week that four months of Blitzkrieg conditions had resulted only in an "infinitesimal" increase in disease. Scarlet fever and diphtheria had actually decreased and the number of pneumonia cases had grown but a trifle. The notable disease increase was in cerebrospinal meningitis, with 12,500 cases in 1940 as against...
...their loneliness with a compound of elderberry wine, arsenic, strychnine and cyanide, followed by Christian burial in the cellar. In these obsequies they have been assisted by a potty nephew (John Alexander) who regards himself as Teddy Roosevelt, the cellar as the Panama Canal, the bodies as yellow-fever victims, and the stairway to the second floor as San Juan Hill...
...Other well-known women doctors: Dr. Gladys Dick of Chicago who discovered the scarlet fever germ, famed Princeton Pediatrician Sara Josephine Baker, founder of New York City's Bureau of Child Hygiene, Columbia University Surgeon Barbara Bartlett Stimson, Philadelphia Public Health Expert Martha Tracy, Head of the American Women's Hospitals Esther Pohl Lovejoy, and Chicago's Surgeon Bertha Van Hoosen (TIME...
...vacation for Christmas cheer among the forces of William Allen White, Verne Marshall, the columnists and the politicians; they were too busy clarifying their positions and branding each other as small minorities seeking to mislead the people. The two weeks of the vacation witnessed a heightening tempo of war fever and of bitter debate, reaching a mighty crescendo in President Roosevelt's defiant message to Congress yesterday...
...mineral oil for constipation; 3) forced feedings of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil to rebellious children. Often the oil slides down the throat into the lungs, where it clogs up air sacs, inflames delicate tissues, forms abscesses and scars. Victims develop a hacking cough, run a low fever. Lipid or oil pneumonia is difficult to diagnose, for few physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia caused by bacteria can be successfully combated with serums and sulfapyridine or sulfathiazole; for lipid pneumonia...