Word: internist
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...wind and the natural effects of aging are generally blamed for causing the crow's-feet and worry lines that most youth-conscious Americans would prefer to avoid. Now a California internist suggests that another factor may be responsible for wrinkles. Writing in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. Harry Daniell reports a definite correlation between early and heavy face wrinkling and habitual cigarette smoking. Daniell bases his finding on a yearlong study of 1,104 people. Daniell asked everyone who visited his office to fill out a questionnaire about his smoking habits, exposure to the sun and medical...
Below Normal. Benson, an internist and cardiologist specializing in hypertension, became interested in the effects of transcendental meditation (TM) while investigating ways to modify high blood pressure. Knowing that the body prepares itself for "fight or flight" by increasing its oxygen consumption, blood pressure, heart rate and secretion of the hormone epinephrine, he theorized that it might be possible to reduce these metabolic factors below their normal rate. Eventually, he and his collaborators conditioned monkeys to lower their blood pressure in order to avoid a slight electrical shock. He then achieved the same result in human volunteers by using...
...comes Jack Harnes, a Manhattan internist, who persuaded, the staid Journal of the American Medical Association to publish what may be the last word on the subject. In "The Foreskin Saga," Harnes puts the "debate" into perspective in a strikingly successful spoof of the ponderous,reports that usually appear in medical publications (among earlier titles of serious articles: "The Rape of the Phallus," "Penile Plunder"). Believing that the circumcision controversy is ludicrous and the sensual argument unprovable, Harnes merely concocted some insights and phony research...