Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purpose is to make an inventory of the nation's health, especially of the chronic diseases and disabilities which impede people from earning enough money to live on. Some 3,500 quizzers, operating under the general direction of George St. John Perrott, chief statistician of the U. S. Public Health Service, will canvass 750,000 households with questions such as these...
...darkest of current Japanese Army secrets remained the reason why General Nagata, Director of Military Affairs, was run through the chest by Army Swordsmanship Instructor Colonel Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26), who sat in jail last week purse-lipped. In general Japan's scrappy little war machine suffers from chronic super-patriotism in the lower ranks, jampacked with zealots who imagine that their generals are too soft and that Japan's current Premier, whoever he may be, must be a pacifist hireling of "The Bankers...
...Soon as the news reached Manhattan, Memorial Hospital, U. S. headquarters for cancer information, warned: "Lead therapy was abandoned at Memorial Hospital after extensive experience. The general toxic effects were found to be too severe. It can be stated that no method of combating the chronic toxic effects of lead has been found. . . . No new results of newer lead therapy methods seem to justify raising new hopes...
...concentrate and store the bile which the liver produces and, after a meal containing bacon, cream or other fats, to squirt some of its supply into the intestines. Typhoid fever germs occasionally slip into the gall bladder and tenaciously resist all medical efforts to dislodge them. They make a chronic typhoid carrier of the person whose gall bladder they infest...
...office in an attitude of extreme weakness and helplessness and with the most pitiful facial expression that can be imagined. When questioned as to her complaint, she stated whiningly: 'I have an auriculo-valvular disease,' a 'diagnosis' which, in conjunction with the attending parental apprehensions, had made a chronic invalid of the child...