Word: buts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University of California's Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence was "proud and happy" to win the Nobel Prize for Physics (TIME, Nov. 20), but said he would not go to Stockholm to get it, because of the dangers of a transatlantic crossing. Said he: "My wife and I have talked...
Droning noises may not only destroy the auditory nerve, but also reduce the flow of saliva and gastric juices. Noise, fear, and changing atmospheric pressure (lowered pressure expands intestinal gases, may cause violent cramps) all add up to a second major occupational disease of fliers: "gastric disturbances."
Air and Altitude Sickness. Identical with seasickness, airsickness is "one of the most important unsolved problems in aviation medicine." Dr. Armstrong believes that it occurs mainly among neurotics who have an unconscious fear of falling. Far more serious is "acute altitude sickness," caused by decrease in the pressure of the...
A still-smarting convalescent from the occupational disease of British Prime Ministers was Britain's Prime Minister last week. Hobbling gingerly after his first bout of gout (podagra) in 18 months, Neville Chamberlain presided over a Cabinet meeting, his left foot swathed in an enormous flannel boot. Outside, London...
Even doctors, some of whom have been "terrible sufferers," find it hard to speak of gout with a straight face. Some, like their patients, pride themselves on their virile infirmity. Osier quotes approvingly Germany's Willibald Pirkheimer (translated into English in 1617) : "I take no pleasure," he wrote, "in...