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...charms work? Emotional impulses, Inman thinks, may cure as well as cause warts. Dr. Inman nods knowingly at folklore stories of people getting rid of eyelid styes by rubbing them with wedding rings. He checked 158 patients, found that 92% of those with styes and 80% of those with tarsal cysts (tumors of the eyelid) had "an exceptional interest in birth." Just why such concern should affect eyelids, .Dr. Inman is not sure. But he reasons that "serious chronic inflammations in the body generally might be beneficially influenced by systematic psychoanalysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spunk-Water & Psychoanalysis | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...puzzle over it they will find Sacheverell Sitwell's essays independently interesting, regardless of the thread by which he links them together. His writing is for a world that is exhausted and convalescent; it has something of the quality of the touch of fingers to the eyelid to soothe a headache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prose for Convalescents | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...automobile headlight with an eyelid, to eliminate all glare by drooping on the approach of another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...John A. Harper held up the wounded man's slashed, liver-colored spleen: "We also took out a piece of kidney," he said, "and he has a bullet through his diaphragm and lung. He asked for a priest right away." Silvis pulled back the wounded man's eyelid and said: "He looks pretty good, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On Iwo Jima | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis was described in last month's War Medicine by Drs. Michael J. Hogan and Joseph W. Crawford of San Francisco. Main characteristics: Small glands of the cheek and neck usually swell, and eyelid swelling may become extreme. When the swelling goes down after about three weeks, white spots may remain in the cornea, especially around the edges of the pupil. These vision disturbers take from one to three months to be absorbed. The disease is thought to be transmissible only by direct contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eye Epidemic | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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