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...British, said Tony Biddle, had found a cure for the flu, an old and trusted remedy: anyone who shows the slightest symptoms is given a healthy shot of whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Mr. Biddle Drops In | 12/20/1943 | 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 »

Peppery little (5 ft. 7½ in.) Emanuel Shinwell, Labor M.P., always had a diagnosis, if not a cure, for Britain's ills. "Manny" was always anticapitalist, anti-imperialist and against Britain's conservative governments, be they Labor, Tory or coalition. He was a leading Leftist in World War I, a vitriolic antidote to Labor's "traitorous" moderates in the years between the wars. He did not change his tune after World War II hit England: Churchill's coalition Government was "Winston's beauty chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Left About-Face | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...tuberculosis is a slow-moving disease, Dr. Fetter says final results can be known only after months and years. He is cautious: Diasone is "no cure-all," should not be used outside of sanatoriums, is "not the final answer" to tuberculosis. He is also enthusiastic: Diasone may prove to be "a step ahead, probably ranking with the advent of the sanatorium [rest treatment] and collapse therapy [compressing a sick lung to make it rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diasone and T. B. | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...around to it. Sample quote: "A lovely breast is like a melody. . . . Woman's happiness, popularity and success are largely due to the beauty of her breasts." The U.S. District Attorney charged that "the product was misrepresented in that the name suggested it was efficacious to cure underdeveloped, atrophied, flabby and pendulous breasts and . . . to develop the firm, well-developed breasts of youth." An abashed user of the capsules, Mrs. Lucille Frances Hinton Moody, 42, bravely testified that she had always been "thin and never fully developed," had taken one package of capsules with no perceptible result. She began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Bust | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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