Word: calif
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years physicians have sought a cure for trachoma, a painful virus disease which furrows the eyelids, burns out the vision of thousands of peasants in Asia, Southeastern Europe, South America. At the Berkeley, Calif, meeting of the Sixth Pacific Science Congress, Dr. Phillips Thygeson, of Manhattan's famed Presbyterian Hospital, announced that sulfanilamide was an effective treatment for trachoma. When Dr. Thygeson fed Sulfanilamide tablets to two large groups of patients, he "obtained healing or striking improvement in a high proportion of cases." In those cases which were far advanced, however, Sulfanilamide did not restore vision...
Into a Hanford, Calif, hospital, interns brought Leonard Henton Cardwell, 58, graduate of a Tennessee medical college, once a practicing physician, now a greengrocer. He had tried to kill himself. Doctors examined him, found a bullet was lodged below his heart. Only chance for Grocer Cardwell's recovery seemed to be an immediate operation to remove the bullet. At that point the patient spoke up. Under California's medical law, as he well knew, no doctor could operate without the patient's consent. And the patient would not consent. Said...
Last week Wartime field artillery Captain Witter announced his successor, selected by the board of governors and sure to be elected at the I.E.A. convention in Del Monte, Calif, this October. This time I.B.A. reached into the Middle West, chose another Wartime battery commander: tall, spectacled, 48-year-old Emmett Francis Connely, president of First of Michigan Corp. First Detroiter ever to head I.E.A., socialite "Spike" Connely is also anti-New Deal, believes in letting others shout their antagonism while he does the best he can in sad days for banking...
...Pasadena, Calif., two brothers petitioned to have their names changed because "persons to whom these petitioners are introduced are unable to resist hackneyed remarks or gibes." Their names: Charles and Gilbert Raspberry...
...garden, domesticated it, named it Teddy. To find out whether toads had a homing instinct, the chiropodist took Teddy on longer & longer trips, turned him loose. Teddy always came home-though from Dallas, Texas it took him a year. Last week Teddy was set down at Oakland, Calif., began hopping patiently along the railroad tracks toward Boston. The chiropodist expects Teddy home again by April...