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...sometimes caused worse irritation than they were supposed to prevent. New York University's Biochemist Margaret B. Strauss developed the tablets, Dr. Robert J. Langs tested them on Coast Guardsmen clearing brush along lower Mississippi waterways. Result: up to 95% effective for at least six months. Trade-named Aqua Ivy, the tablets are nonprescription. Still under investigation: use of Aqua Ivy injections for victims who already have severe ivy poisoning. Doctors report some dramatic improvements within hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anti Burn & Itch | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Photogenic Scuttling. Roughly half of each 30-minute installment of Sea Hunt happens underwater. Skindiving Hero Mike Nelson (Bridges) has battled the odds in the form of sharks, octopuses, moray eels, manta rays, alligators, giant sea turtles, Aqua-Lunged badmen-and "rapture of the deep" (nitrogen narcosis). The whole production crew is equally at home at sea; Ziv Producer Tors, 42, is a zealous sea hunter, and Secretary Parry holds the world's depth record for women: 209 ft. down, off Catalina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Off the Deep End | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...three in the morning when Vag strode into the room on Thursday. Having placed his water skis above the fireplace and his aqua-lungs in the closet, he greeted me; "Gad but it is disgusting to be back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gaudeamus... | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

Kidron's announcement was reported by sources close to the delegation to mean Israel is preparing to pull her troops back from the Gulf of Aqua and the Gaza Strip...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Israel to Tell U.N. About Plans On Withdrawal From Gaza Strip; Kader Shuffles Administration | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

...tries to go either up or down. The medical hazards of high-altitude flying have long been studied. Until recently, the corresponding dangers of the deep have been the private preserve of Navy "diving doctors" working with submariners and deep-sea divers. Now, with the craze for skindiving, with Aqua-Lungs, snorkels and similar gadgets sold in the corner store, civilian doctors are daily confronted with unfamiliar problems. In the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the Navy's top underwater medicinemen, Lieut. Edward H. Lanphier, offers a primer. Dr. Lanphier, of the Navy's Experimental Diving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Scuba Hazards | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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