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...lost from venereal disease from 1,280 man-days per 1,000 men in 1940 to 200 at present. The average soldier with venereal disease now loses only a week from duty. One officer asked whether it would not be more economical to cut down prophylaxis and lectures, simply cure cases. The answer: no. ¶ The Army's Reconditioning Program (TIME, Nov. 15, 1943) now cares for 1,000 men, fits 12,000 for duty every week. Dr. George Deaver of New York's Institute for the Crippled and Disabled said that for those who are crippled, ordinary...
...Journal's summary concludes that the electron microscope can eventually help doctors figure out a drug or vaccine to cure any infection...
...National Committee for Education on Alcoholism, with offices in Manhattan's Academy of Medicine. The daughter of an executive of Marshall Field's Chicago department store, she married a drunkard and became one herself. Her husband, meanwhile, got over it. In 1939, after psychiatrists had failed to cure her, she became the first woman member of Alcoholics Anonymous. She still goes to parties where drinks are served, but her drink is a horse's neck (ginger ale with lemon...
Just as Dr. Chumley, the psychiatrist at the sanatarium, is about to give Elwood a shot of Formula X to cure what supposedly ails him, the taxi driver who has brought the Dowds to the institution comes in for his money. Vita and Myrtle find they're fresh out, so they stop the injection and tell Elwood to pay the man. Elwood in his pleasant and disarming way discusses life with the cab driver, invites him over to the house for dinner, and makes the duped young fellow forget all about the $2.75. But the cabbie likes Elwood...
...Arab states had yet agreed to the League. Saudi Arabia and Yemen had not come in. Saudi Arabia's far-sighted Ibn Saud and Yemen's prudent Iman Yahya had sent no delegates to Alexandria, only "observers"-two elderly sheiks taking a seaside cure. They had not signed...