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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

After the bowel recovers from laxative irritation, it can get along with very little help: the methylcellulose can be cut down from 16 tablets to two a day.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: By Bulk | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

For one thing, he decided, the modern school is trying to do too much. In its insistence upon educating the "whole child" it is acting as if the home, the parents, the church, and everything outside the classroom had no existence at all. Over the years it has added course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Growth Toward What? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

One of the worst pests of the southwestern cattle ranges is sagebrush, which romanticists admire but which cattle will not eat. In many places it makes the range almost worthless. Mowing it down mechanically is a slow, costly job.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: DDT Down, 2,4-D Up | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Somewhere along the line from Algeria to Tunisia to Sicily to Italy, Noles was bitten by a sand flea. In southern Italy he came down with aches, chills and fever. Doctors said it was malaria, and dosed him with quinine. Off & on, after settling down again at home in La...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dangerous Souvenir | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

To keep his editorial hand in, Dr. Fishbein was taking on more duties as consulting editor of Doubleday & Co. and its medical subsidiary, the Blakiston Co., for which he had long worked in his spare time. He will continue as medical editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hearst's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No Time to Retire | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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