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Diehard. In Kansas City, John Davis tried unsuccessfully to end it all by 1) swallowing iodine; 2) taking merthiolate; 3) sticking his head into a gas stove; 4) shooting himself in the head; 5) drowning himself in the bathtub; was about to slit his throat when police arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Research Mystery. The researchers are up against a deceptive and insidious disease. In its first stage it looks like an ordinary respiratory infection, perhaps a mere sore throat, and is often overlooked or mistaken for another disease. Recent research has shown that the infection is usually group A streptococcus (but not streptococcus of other groups), and occasionally scarlet fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crippled Hearts | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Surprise! In Coventry, England, the Rev. Eric Appleby was able to forgive his wife for bending over his chair, covering his eyes, kissing him, simultaneously slitting his throat with a razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...very limited supply of KR has permitted, clinical tests have also been made on human cancers (i.e., where the growths were not so large that their dissolution would cause malfunctions). One inoperable throat cancer, Drs. Roskin & Kluyeva report, disappeared in two weeks. In an unspecified number of other cases KR "reduced" or partially destroyed cancer. But a lot more evidence is needed, the doctors admit, before the usefulness of KR can be safely evaluated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: KR for Cancer | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Adolf Hitler, inside & out, according to U.S. Army medical research so far: he had stomach trouble, throat trouble, insomnia, imagined he had heart trouble, had a dread of getting fat, got prematurely bored with sex, acquired a stoop, a tremor in one arm and a drag in one leg, and turned yellowish from dosing himself with patent medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fundamentals | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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