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...with what they call the grippe and a hot water bottle- not a bad combination. . . . More or less in bed owing to my hind legs, which are in a chronic state of being asleep up to the knees and threaten to leave me in the lurch. ... I am growing very tottery and had considerable difficulty in dressing this a. m. Even so, I shirk my job and ignominiously retire to blankets and a cheap novel at our forlorn and smelly billet...
...early signs of smallpox. Lord Horder was amused. Said he: "They look at wrists because they did it a hundred years ago when diseases such as smallpox were a real danger. From the standpoint of medicine we are no longer so much concerned with acute, fulminating diseases as with chronic diseases. With the wear and tear of life, heart, arterial and nervous diseases are increasing. Acute diseases have almost died...
...done in the 1870's, through the brilliant stalwart nudes of Tahiti, for which the world remembers him, to the nostalgic view of France, painted in the Marquesas in the last years of his life when his eyesight was nearly gone and his feet were rotting away with chronic eczema...
Lead is the most common chemical poison causing abortion. Dr. Taussig found that chronic alcoholism may cause abortions, but "it is improbable that cigaret smoking even to excess can lead to" that termination of pregnancy. More boys are born alive than girls. More male fetuses are aborted than female fetuses. Some investigators believe that this preponderance of male conceptions over female conceptions is nature's way of compensating for the fact that unborn males are less sturdy than unborn females. Dr. Taussig scoffs at this theory of "genetic weakness" in males. Concerning male abortions he reasons that male fetuses...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber made $5,452,000 in 1935 against $4,287,000 in 1934. Sales were $28,000,000 ahead of 1934, but the tire companies spent the best part of the 1935 selling season in one of their chronic price-cutting battles. U. S. motorists bought about 2,500,000 fewer tires in 1935 than in 1934, partly because they were catching on to the possibilities of having tires retreaded. Goodyear, having made 12? a share in 1935, was last week selling at $28, about 233 times earnings...