Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-minded Dentists Chapin Aaron Harris and Horace Henry Hayden opened the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, first in the world. In the freshman class were five students, their only qualifications reading & writing, tough biceps. After a four-month course, the boys went out into the world to battle brawny patients, crazy with pain. "Be pitiless," counseled Dr. Harris. "As the patient is very apt to catch the hand of the operator, he must have both hands ready and, when one is pulled away, seize the instrument with the other and so go on until the operation is complete...
Young Dr. Harold Aaron of Manhattan, author of a book on constipation, spent a year collecting many of the latest medical wrinkles that laymen need to know. Last week he published a cheery home companion. Good Health and Bad Medicine (McBride; $3), giving scientific advice on colds, bellyaches, feet, tooth decay, pimples, laxatives, painkillers, hair tonics...
Colds. Medical science has no preventive nor cure for the common cold, says Dr. Aaron. Only thing to do when you catch cold: go home and wait for it to blow over. Special vaccines may help break up colds, will not forestall them. Nor will Vitamin A or ultraviolet treatments provide "cold-defense." Most nose drops must be used with great care, for they often injure delicate membranes, spread infection to the ears. Only safe remedy for stuffiness, says Dr. Aaron, is neo-synephrine snuffed up the nose, or ephedrine in salt solution, not oil. Oil drops may dribble into...