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...Medical authorites generally blame poor sanitation, blood transfusions and drug addicts' needles for the spread of serum hepatitis, a debilitating and sometimes fatal liver disease. Now it appears that the mosquito might also transmit the ailment. Studies by Rutgers University, the New York Blood Center and the New Jersey Medical School concentrated on tropical mosquitoes. After drawing blood from a person known to be a chronic carrier of hepatitis, the laboratory-raised insects retained the virus for three days and presumably could have transmitted the infection if allowed to attack another victim. The researchers know of no hepatitis cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jun. 26, 1972 | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...Plantar and loosely based on Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Muslim Sufism and Tibetan Lamaism. Exercises called "Mentations" require the student to "concentrate your attention into each separate section" of the body for a prescribed time: 8 minutes 40 seconds for the colon and kidneys, 10 minutes 45 seconds for the liver, and so on. "Active in the World" calls for lying motionless, forearms supported on elbows, palms facing the feet, while feeling "the tissues of your body actively engaged in the dance of Life." The instructions for "Passive in the Cosmos" specify one arm held straight up from the shoulder while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Toward Level 24 | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

Though Air Force Sergeant Tor Olson, 22, might be called a washout of sorts, he is anything but unhappy about that appellation. In March, the 145-lb. Olson was comatose and near death from liver failure brought on by hepatitis. Today he is not only alive but well, thanks to the first successful flushing, or "total body washout," of a patient's circulatory system. Colonel Gerald Klebanoff of Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, attempted the pioneering procedure af-ter Olson had been in a coma for three days and showed no indications of reviving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, May 22, 1972 | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...products and of the truthfulness of their advertising." The FTC will probably have to issue formal complaints and hold hearings, the results of which could be appealed up to the Supreme Court. Such procedures are usually lengthy; it took the FTC 16 years to get the word "liver" out of Carter's Little Liver Pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Headache Remedy | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Like Lucifer, publications of this ilk tell a little truth and slip the lies in like chopped liver in a sandwich. The gullible don't know they've been had till they get sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1972 | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

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