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...Peeling potatoes, to modern housewives, is a sin. Potato jackets, they firmly believe, are rich in anti-scurvy Vitamin C, while the potato's inside is little more than starch and water. Last month the British Medical Journal laughed at this assertion, referred to some new research of a food chemist, Mamie Olliver. The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content of potatoes, she found, is more than skin deep. In fact, said the Journal, the amount of vitamin "increases from without inwards. This admirable vegetable-. . . by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron and aneurin [ Vitamin...
Last summer members of the American Gastro-Enterological Society held a meeting in Atlantic City. As usual, they talked mostly about ulcers. The doctors could speak from bitter experience, for as a professional group they have a high percentage of ulcers. Last week the American Journal of Digestive Diseases printed the full debate. Since physicians have no sure cure, and surgeons can only cut out pieces of flesh, the doctors had plenty to argue about. The patient as usual was left holding his stomach. Drift of the argument...
Last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Robert Spaulding Hormell of Boston City Hospital told about this and other old treatments for arthritis. It made interesting if not very encouraging reading for patients of Paul's present day successors...
Last week, Planner Tugwell was back in the news on two fronts. The first was Washington, where he attended the Savings Bank Journal forum (see p. 81). Picking up a challenge of Guaranty Trust Co. Vice President Robert Garner, who asked, "If the Administration knows how to create employment, why hasn't it done so in the past eight years?", Tugwell replied: "It always has required from $12,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000 of Government spending a year...
...Animals (six volumes). He now murmurs: "Every scientific library in America today points to Seton's Lives as the last word and best authority on the subject." Seton also organized a woodcraft movement for lads under the petticoats of bird-loving Edward Bok's Ladies' Home Journal...