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...Harvard senior, one of those rare personages who occasionally turn up to confound the "how many steps are there on your front porch see you don't know although you climb them every day" dictum of modern psychologists, recently sat in his room, desperately put to pass the time between 1:45 o'clock and 1:55 o'clock when he could amble off to a class. Idly he eyed the cover of the October 1 Saturday Evening Post, which depicted a night football game; and idly he began to count the yard-lines on the grid-iron there displayed...
...person good bowel function may mean one movement every day. In another ... it may mean one movement every three or four days. . . . The dictum that a bowel movement every day is necessary for good health is absolutely false. Every person's bowel has its own individual law of frequency of movement. . . . Constipation exists [only] if defecation is difficult or painful, or if there is a sense of incompleteness of evacuation...
...watching the effect of these and other cholagogic (bile evacuating) substances on the little gall bladder of the telescope fish, Pharmacologist Viehoever hopes to be able to contradict "the dictum of the medical profession that surgery is the stones." only remedy for the removal of gall...
...Hearst's official dictum to all editors: Don't take sides in Spain...
Such was the epilogue which the foremost living historian of medicine, Professor Ernest Sigerist of Johns Hopkins University added to a book on Socialized Medicine in the Soviet Union* published last fortnight. But to the anxious minds of orthodox U. S. doctors, Historian Sigerist's dictum was prologue to a blood-curdling new excursion into the practice of medicine which the U. S. Government initiated last week...