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...Commission also recommended that doctors be freed from the unethical requirement of publishing the patient's ailment on the prescription. Promptly James M. Doran, Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, ordered his agents to act accordingly. The individual regained the privilege of keeping his ills secret...
...sick headache, that nuisance in households one of whose members suffers therefrom, last week received close study at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Despite the wide prevalence of the ailment, especially in neurotic families, its nature is not known. At least five major causes have been suggested. But those five are usually obscured because the victims, to get attention and coddling, often imagine or pretend other ailments. They fall into megrims, fancies, freaks; they have the blues, the dumps; they become hipped on their misery...
Died. Right Rev. Sheldon Munson Griswold, 69, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago; of a heart and liver ailment; in Evanston...
...diseases keeps the medical profession busy. Last week a National Conference on Nomenclature of Disease met in Manhattan and considered a numerical system to make it easier for one doctor to know exactly what another is talking about. Current naming systems are confusing because one system calls an ailment after its discoverer, as Pott's Disease; another system calls the same disease according to the causative agent and the part affected, as tuberculosis of the spine; a third according to the pathological findings and the part affected, as vertebral caries. They all mean the same...
Chapin suffered from two afflictions: tuberculous throat and a thirst for gambling. Driven from work by the first ailment in 1914, he took leave of absence, won a fortune in the sugar market, lost everything-including some money entrusted to him-when the outbreak of the war closed the Stock Exchange. Back in Manhattan he became more and more deeply involved. Extravagant living made hopeless any effort to pay his debts. At the end of four years a court demand for an accounting of his trust caused the final break. Walking with his wife one day Chapin was accosted...