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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political physician diagnosing Europe's health would have reported that while the patient still had some fever and complications might easily set in, there was still a 50-50 chance that he would regain normal health. One reason for that chance is obviously that the democracies have a little more marrow in their bones since Munich. French and British defense-and hence morale-have distinctly improved. Mr. Roosevelt's tough talk against the dictatorships has helped. It was even possible to construe in Herr Hitler's statement that Germany must "export or die" an invitation to commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pulse | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...rumors, could prevent rabies. For nine-year-old Joseph had been bitten in 14 places by a huge, mad dog and in a desperate attempt to cheat death, his mother had fled from their home town in Alsace to Paris. Early in the afternoon Mme Meister met a young physician in a hospital. "You mean Pasteur," he said. "I'll take you there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pasteur's Pride | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church for 17 years and four days. He was dying. Ill as well as aged (81), he had refused to take to his bed till three days before, stricken by cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances. A sturdy patient, he had told his physician that "the Pope must not stay in bed. The Pope must be Pope." Mindful of Leo XIII, who lay 20 days a-dying, he had said: "I will die sulla breccia"-in the breach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death of a Pope | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week he came down with influenza, suffered a third serious heart attack. Since his physician, Dr. Aminta Milani, was also sick with flu. Dr. Filippo Rocchi was called. Scarcely had he arrived when the Pope became unconscious. His pulse was feeble, his heartbeat almost inaudible. As a stimulant, Dr. Rocchi gave the Pope an injection of camphor oil* and half an hour later he regained consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medici Papae | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Doughton, his spectacles quizzically pushed up on his forehead, presided over as rowdy a show as he has seen in his 28 years in Congress. The hearing room was jammed with Townsendites and other pension peddlers, for on the committee's schedule was no less a witness than Physician Francis E. Townsend himself. Far more unruly, however, were Congressmen anxious to outdo one another in doing for the old folks. Massachusetts' broadbeamed Republican Allen Treadway, whose State party leaders made an election alliance with the Townsendites, showed what was likely to happen when Congress receives the committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Pie from the Sky | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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