Word: associationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides following the above excursions of its three presidents, the Association pursued its major purpose of recounting the past year's researches. Some addresses:
Morris Fishbein, 40, editor of the Association's medical journals, vigorously thwacked the widespread idea that operating on the gonads or any other procedure will prolong life. Said he: "A tissue that has died can no more be restored to life than can new elasticity be put into a pair...
Henry Hurd Rusby, Columbia University's famed pharmacologist, had hoped that the Association would finally be induced to take up the campaign against "impure" ergot imports which he has been conducting in collaboration with Howard W. Ambruster, an independent Manhattan ergot importer (TIME, April 15, May 13). Apparently because of...
Another Methodist attempt to meddle with Medicine brought another tart rebuke last week. The Voice of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church had blasted at the "lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty...
Countered the Association Journal last week: "Smoking ... by women has no apparent influence over the functions of the genital system. . . . There is no mention [in expert research on the subject ] of tobacco heart in newborn children. . . . The morality of smoking by women is not a medical concern any more than...