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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cosmologists, of course, do not know that there was ever any such thing as ylem. What they do know with fair certainty is that the relative abundance of the chemical elements is much the same throughout the universe. Hydrogen is commonest. Except in odd corners like the earth, the heavier elements such as iron, lead, uranium, etc. are extremely scarce...
...Misnamed more than 500 years ago, ringworm is caused not by a worm but by a fungus, usually Microsporon audouini. In North America the commonest fungus disease is popularly called "athlete's foot...
...most serious complications met in treating tuberculosis is what the doctors call empyema, i.e., the cavity between a lung and the chest wall fills with pus. Not long ago empyema was one of the commonest complications; nowadays, thanks to streptomycin and skillful surgery, it afflicts fewer than one-tenth of tuberculosis patients. But it is still true that nearly half of those it attacks do not recover...
Since pain is what usually drives a patient to a doctor, the book opens with a discussion of pain itself, followed by detailed chapters on some of its commonest forms, such as headache and lower-back pain. Dr. George Pickering, Britain's top headache authority, sadly records that only in the last 15 years has there been scientific experimentation to sort out the different kinds of headaches...
...charged that in this clause "there is no requirement of the use of force or other unlawful methods at any time. The act may be wholly peaceable. It may be one of the commonest political activities, like nominating a candidate for office who is pledged to the specified policy." At that time he urged the committee holding hearings on the bill to strike out Section 4, warning that "it is a straight sedition law of the most reprehensible sorts" and that "nobody knows how unexpectedly a sedition law can be construed unless he has studied into such matters...