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Soon Dr. Fleming had ascertained that: 1) the strange liquid did not harm fresh leucocytes (white blood corpuscles); 2) injections of the liquid did not hurt mice; 3) some bacteria (e.g., whooping cough bacillus) lived in the liquid as cozily as in a baby's throat. Modest Dr. Fleming saved the moldy plate as a souvenir, still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 20TH Century Seer | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md., they X-rayed Franklin Roosevelt's chest. It was a mild case of bronchitis, going into its third week. To reporters, the President pooh-poohed his illness, continued to smoke from his long cigaret holder, continued to cough softly but persistently. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The President's Week, Apr. 10, 1944 | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...prayer meeting, and global war gives men little time to sing hymns in front of an altar. But the praying pilot; the nurse who lifted the cup of cold water to my burning lips; the mail truck driver with a chest cough that sounded to me like pneumonia, who nevertheless drove twelve miles out of his way to get a lost kid from Georgia back to his outfit; the girl from Oregon who was hanging curtains at a dust-smothered "basha" to make it look a bit like home to homesick boys; and the wounded from the landing beaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: THE CHURCH CAME OUT TO US | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...Cough drops and aspirin have boomed 20 per cent around the Square, but the most popular nostrums are pills of vitamins A and D, which are popularly believed to prevent or cure colds, although the Hygiene Department claims that no such value has been evidenced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Below Freezing Weather Sends Many Harvard Men to Drugstores Saloons | 12/14/1943 | See Source »

...Guitar& Slops. Not many St. Louisians are abroad at 5:25 in the morning, but Cousin Emmy does not mind. She is talking for her own mountain folk and for small-towners. They listen, too-such is the power of KMOX-from Canada to Guadalcanal. They also buy the cough drops and hair dye she plugs, as is eloquently testified by the $850 a week which Cousin Emmy usually takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cousin Emmy | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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