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...There were 235,000 people who died of cardiac troubles last year in the U. S., and there must have been many times that number who suffered from these troubles who, I believe, could either be cured or relieved by such institutions as that we are endeavoring to build at Saratoga (TIME, March 3). I have been informed that more people die of cardiac diseases yearly than from cancer, pneumonia and tuberculosis combined. I do not say that Saratoga, when completed as a spa and health resort, could by itself cure or relieve any large proportion of these sufferers...
...first act of Broadway Nights a group of tinted chorines dance before a mammoth synthetic rosebush. In the second act the celebration is repeated for orchids. The cast is headed by Odette Myrtil, a rough-voiced Parisienne who makes pantherlike glides around the stage while playing cardiac tunes on her violin. This combination of music and motion is popular, but by any comparative standard the name of Laura Lee, the show's small, vivacious song-plugger, should also be featured...
Heart Disease. Increase of cardiac clinics, deeper study into the cause and pathology of heart disease...
...widely different diseases. Last week Herr Doktor August Bier, head of Berlin's largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns the body to bring on a fever in cases of chronic diseases of the joints, obstinate suppuration, cardiac inflammation following chronic ulceration. Using the thermo-cauterizer, a scientific and delicate branding iron, he lays back the skin at the affected area and lightly sears the tissues underneath. The skin is then replaced in such a way as to allow drainage of pus and ultimate healing, thereby avoiding...
Manhattan is full of Italian waiters, German butchers, Irish millionaires and Russian artists. One of the Russians is Arshele Gorky, 23, who last week became an active member of the faculty of the Grand Central Art School. His cousin, Maxim, is now in Venice, treating a cardiac ailment and working on another book of those stories which, kindled from Anton Pavlovich Tchekov's great bonfire, have made his name burn like a sombre torch' across the world. Arshele Gorky admits the relationship. He himself paints still life. In his first newspaper interview he talked good sense...