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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"There just wasn't anything else I could do," said 29-year-old Osteopath Fisher to reporters last week. "'Red' and 'Black' will come along all right now, I guess, but even after we had this thing rigged up they nearly died. A couple of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fruit-Jar Rescue | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

In the Journal of the American Medical Association last week Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby and colleagues* of the Mayo Clinic published a complete report of their new doughnut-shaped rubber oxygen mask (TIME, Jan. 16). Oxygen administered in hospitals through cumbersome, complicated oxygen tents usually costs a patient $12 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fruit-Jar Rescue | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

"Once the trephining of the skull was over . . . my mood underwent a change. There was a sound of pumping and draining and I could hear the drip, drip of a liquid. Although my brain didn't hurt at all, it did hurt me when one of the instruments fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patient's-Eye-View | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Aviator Earhart was still relatively unskilled in flying when she became famous as an airwoman. Commercial flights and publicity ventures gave her experience, helped pay for the longer hops she took for the fun of it. She never quite broke even, though her extracurricular activities ranged from being a peripatetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flying Lady | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

In Manhattan, Nurse Edna Burdick was driving along a viaduct when her car blew a tire, crashed through a guardrail, plummeted 100 feet to a sandlot. A policeman rushed up to the wreck. Nurse Burdick, scratched but otherwise uninjured, stepped out, asked him to help find her pocketbook.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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