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...such caperings pass without comment is Dr. Morris Fishbein, pontifical editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Ridiculous! . . . Untrue!" snorted he in the Journal last week. "Milk is the only article of diet whose function in nature is to serve as food. Certainly the values of milk in protein, in mineral salts and in vitamins are sufficient upon which to base claims as to its usefulness without trying to turn the product into a 'patent medicine...
...Albany, N. Y., State Health Commissioner Thomas Parran Jr. promptly endorsed Editor Fishbein's fulminations, darkly warned: "Alkalosis is just as deleterious to health as acidosis...
...usual the A. M. A. was richer. This was due almost entirely to the earnings of the A. M. A. Journal which Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor, has made greater in size, earnings and influence than any other medical publication on earth. Last year the Journal had 85,535 subscribers. They paid $603,192 in subscription fees (which also covered fellowship dues in the A. M. A.). Advertisers last year paid the Journal $727,112. Smaller items made the Journal's total 1934 income $1,439,751. Cost of operating was $825,781 (including $399,598 for wages paying...
With its other publications, the A. M. A. has not been so successful. Hygeia, the health magazine, which Dr. Fishbein also edits, last year lost $2,059. (In 1933 it lost $30,127.) Special publications-including the erudite Archives of Internal Medicine, the stupendous Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus (cumulative index of significant articles in 1,300 medical publications), the 11-lb. Directory of U.S. and Canadian doctors-piled up a total deficit of $72,458 last year...
...life of man upon this earth is 70 years. A child born today may expect to live 60 years instead of the 35 years it could expect in 1833. -In the 21st Century ... we shall see the majority of mankind approximating three score years and ten.-Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal. ¶ Facsimile radio, that is, the sending of pictures and printed matter through the air, is looming on the horizon of science. ... I believe the day will come when you will turn on the facsimile receiver when retiring and in the morning the paper...