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TIME's error consisted of confusing the A. M. A. Journal's circulation (92,600) with the A. M. A.'s full membership (103,000). To alert Dr. Fishbein, regrets...
...MORRIS FISHBEIN...
Albert Payson Terhune is a big, beefy man who cultivates untidy hair and a vast reputation for knowing and loving dogs. On the subject of Man's Best Friend, he has written millions of well-paid words. Last week small Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association's Journal editorially jumped roundly upon large Mr. Terhune for injudicious talk about rabies...
Said Dr. John Howell Janeway Upham, dean of Ohio State University College of Medicine, president-elect of the American Medical Association: "It is an exceptional case which has no bearing on the future of childbearing or on the method of child delivery." Said Dr. Morris Fishbein, publicist of the A. M. A.: "Hypnotism has been used repeatedly for many years in an endeavor to alleviate the pains of childbirth, but has not been found successful except in the case of hysterical individuals who have been repeatedly hypnotized and are therefore especially amenable to the power of suggestion." Dr. Kanter...
Last week Editor Morris Fishbein, who is particularly interested in purpura, published in his Journal of the American Medical Association two ways of treating that blood disease. The methods were equally inexplicable, equally poisonous. In purpura blood escapes from capillaries and collects under the skin or mucous membranes in spots which range in size from pinpoints to silver dollars, in color from flaming red to black & blue. Bruises cause transient purpuric blotches called ecchymoses. Typhus fever causes dotty purpura or petechiae. The kind of purpura which interested Dr. Fishbein last week was thrombocyto-penic purpura. Victims of this condition...