Word: journals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight Boston physicians began at once to investigate the relation of human encephalitis to equine encephalomyelitis, and last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. LeRoy Dryden Fothergill and associates* announced that, for the first time, from a case of human encephalitis, they had isolated a virus which was identical with the eastern strain of equine encephalomyelitis virus. A few days later, in Science, Pathologists Leslie Tillotson Webster and F. Howell Wright of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute confirmed the findings of the Boston physicians and described four similar cases...
...many a smoker, however, this facetious advice may be unnecessary, since many a doctor has come to the conclusion that, no matter what else it may do to you, smoking does not injure the heart of a healthy person. According to the New York State Journal of Medicine, laboratory rats injected with nicotine showed fewer heart lesions over a period of six months than did rats injected with plain saltwater...
...Nicotine in itself." said the Journal,"does not produce organic cardiovascular disease." However, because it constricts blood vessels, it may aggravate a previously existing circulatory disease. So saying, the Journal tersely announced it had nothing further to add on smoker's heart...
Since it scrapped its traffic light system four years ago, busy, industrial Bayonne, N.J. has had a substantial decrease in traffic mishaps. No scientist has explained why. But last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Cincinnati Physician Howard D. Fabing examined the behavior of the average motorist, found that traffic lights caused conditioned reflexes which made him as dithery as one of Russian Physiologist I.P. Pavlov's famous third-degreed dogs...
...journal begins in 1826, when he was teaching school in Connecticut. The first entries are pious and stiff. After he gets involved with the early abolitionists in Boston, marries and comes under the influence of the Rev. Mr. Emerson, he begins to write unselfconsciously and lightly, mixing portraits of his neighbors with reflections on God, literature, teaching, fugitive slaves he sheltered, the punishment of children (he had come to the painful conclusion that his disobedient daughter Louisa was possessed of the devil...