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Slowly recovering from pernicious anemia Ring W. Lardner was removed from hospital to home. In the course of a press interview, said he: "The prince of all bad writers is Dreiser. He takes a big subject, but so far as handling it and writing it-why, one of my children could do better." Author Lardner has four children, all boys. Last summer the youngest, David Ellis Lardner, 10, was "humorous editor" of High Tide, juvenile newspaper of East Hampton, L. I. Richard Lardner Tobin, nephew, is managing editor of the Daily at the University of Michigan (TIME...
Died, Dr. John B. Deaver, 76, since 1886 chief surgeon at Philadelphia's old-time German Hospital (now the Lankenau), Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University of Pennsylvania; of anemia; in Philadelphia. His specialty: appendectomy. One year he performed an average of six operations every weekday. He could manipulate his scalpel with both right and left hands. He was a surgeon's surgeon; he operated on more medical men than any other surgeon in the land. Once 160 physicians attended a dinner in his honor, given by men upon whom he had performed major operations...
...athlete's foot." Xanthomatosis, which makes children look like frogs, squatty and popeyed, and which Merrill Clary Sosman of Harvard found X-rays will relieve and sometimes cure. The scolding which Harvard's George Richards Minot gave lazy physicians because they think liver extracts will cure every kind of anemia. The scorn with which Arthur Joseph Cramp of Chicago flayed sellers and buyers of patent medicines. The plan of Theodore Louis Squier of Milwaukee's A. 0. Smith Corp. (FORTUNE, Nov. 1930) to preserve the life-long medical record of every person in a community. The criticism by Harrison...
...fact that the cause of gastric ulcers has been unknown. Simple acute gastric ulcer occurs more often among young anemic women, chronic ulcer in men. Especially prone to the ailment are housemaids and shoemakers. Ulcers may occur after a blow in the region of the stomach. Anemia predisposes, especially in women. The disease may be found in connection with diseases of the heart, arteries, liver, gall-bladder and appendix. The present tendency is to charge infections, especially of the teeth and tonsils, as the probable cause of stomach ulcers. A deeper-laid cause is, according to Dr. Cushing's suggestion...
...They feel weak all over; their stomachs are irritable; their blood pressure is low; and, most notably, their skin deepens in color. They usually die during a fainting spell. The notable pigmentation is deceptive. Many another condition causes similar discoloring: pregnancy, constipation, cancer, chronic stomach ulcers, abdominal growths, pernicious anemia. Affection, most often tuberculosis, of the suprarenal glands, is the cause of Addison's disease. The glands are two small bodies, shaped like cocked hats and one perched at the top of each kidney. Each gland is made up of a cortex or rind and a medulla or pith...