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...that since many such patients are going to have to live with their disease for ten to 15 years, they should be started promptly on a simple diet which a housewife can handle without a hospital's fancy kitchen gear, and they should be given prescriptions for simple, greenleaf digitalis instead of more expensive proprietary drugs. "In fact," summed up Dr. Dock, "the main faults in the treatment of these patients are overtreatment and overprescription...
History and legend have both been unkind. Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of "painful Kelpius . . . maddest of good men . . . weird as a wizard, over arts forbid." But before the day when he died in his garden at only 35, Kelpius had succeeded in giving his followers something of his vision of a life sustained in its every moment by communion with...
...proposed world center for women scholars will stand on Annex-owned property between Brattle and Ash Streets, near Greenleaf House...
...Miss Darrah's day, 90% of the children in the survey picked their heroes from history and letters. Washington and Lincoln led the list, followed by John Greenleaf Whittier, Clara Barton, Julius Caesar, Christopher Columbus. Few of them gave first place to living notables; even such national characters as Champion Skater John S. Johnson and Heavyweight James J. Corbett rated only a handful of votes...
Died. Ralph Greenleaf, 50, dapper, 16-time world champion of pocket billiards; of bronchial pneumonia; in Philadelphia. Greenleaf, who did for pool what Babe Ruth did for baseball, set an official world's record in 1929 of 126 balls without a miss, once, in an exhibition match, pocketed 269 straight balls...