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One Englishwoman, Mrs. M. Grieve, has made herself her country's great grower of herbs and other simples. Another woman, Mrs. Carl Frederick Leyel, has made herself Britain's greatest advocate of herbal medicine. Last week the two published the U. S. edition of their two-volume Modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Simples | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

"The greatest objection to cremation is the usurpation of the funeral directors' rights by the crematory people. Though they have stoutly maintained that a funeral director cannot profitably own his own retorts, this is not the case. They simply want to cremate so that they can sell the urn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Lost: 142,000 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Wood Alcohol or any form of methylated alcohol was barred by the Cabinet from being sold in Italy as a drink or introduced into any cosmetic or medicinal specialty.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Meaning of Death | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

There are U. S. ophthalmologists sufficiently skilled to write such prescriptions. But none, so far as could be learned last week, owns a complete set of 39 test lenses (cost $25 a lens); and most consider contact glasses foolish, unnecessary. Dr. Heine's customers have been people with athletic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Contact Glasses | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

New York City last week opened six free clinics for plastic surgery. No other U. S. community has so many such institutions for remodeling marred and malformed humans. Like all free clinics these have a double purpose: to give the supervision of experts to those too poor to pay for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Body Remodelers | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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