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From the Willow. It must have been salicylic acid that Hippocrates was dealing with when he recommended extracts of willow bark-for relieving pain and fever. American Indians gave willow-bark tea for rheumatism and fevers...
Universal Sovereign. In the early years, doctors learned about aspirin from their patients. They prescribed it for rheumatic pains, and patients volunteered the information that it also cured headaches. It has become the universal, sovereign remedy for dropping a fever, and for pain of practically any kind from hangover to cancer. In the rheumatic disorders, aspirin has a double action: it not only eases pain but, by lowering the temperature of inflamed joints and muscles, actually helps to check the disease process itself. It has a similar double action in gout. Aspirin's supremacy as an antirheumatic was threatened...
...unsuccessful as connoisseurs trying to convey the exact flavor of a vintage wine. One thing that especially endears the poet to his colleagues, however, is his fashionable fondness for antinomies -his perception that life is lived in impossible tension between unresolvable opposites. Ransom heroines die of "six spells of fever and six of burning." They have only to appear, magnolia fresh, on the piazza, and the rustle of death stirs in the wistaria trees. His lovers can find no rest, so tormented are they by such archaic inner struggles as lust v. honor, or passion v. philosophy. For his part...
...most famous of these is The Well-Educated American Woman. The fable speaks for all men who think their wives are too busy with public events to cook, look after their children and love their husbands. When Cheever gave reign to his worst fears (a child dies of fever because mother was at a meeting), Mary didn't take this too much to heart: "I did go to one or two meetings of the League of Women Voters, but I do think he should not have killed the little boy." She has a husband that will spend...
...study of mental collapse, Every Man is often impressive. But Novelist Von Doderer weakens his book by overloading it with biographical and clinical detail. The result is more case history than novel: the fever chart of childhood has dictated a whole life...