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...favor of the second of these dictums. This week a doctor published a book undertaking to show that it is now possible for most people to live to be at least 100. Its title: You Are Younger Than You Think (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $2.75). The author is Dr. Martin Gumpert of Manhattan, refugee from Nazi Germany, sometime German soldier, plastic surgeon, dermatologist, biographer, poet and the model for the character Mai-Sachme in Thomas Mann's Joseph the Provider (TIME, July...
Preparing to celebrate the end of his first year as Nazi Health Führer, Dr. Conti distributed to U. S. teachers and doctors good-looking statistics on German health. The statistics are correct. But, in a hard little book (Heil Hunger!-Alliance Books-$1.75), Dr. Martin Gumpert, former head of the City Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases in Berlin, now a refugee in Manhattan, made Dr. Conti's figures prove an ugly picture of deterioration in Naziland. Besides Dr. Conti's figures Dr. Gumpert also used other official Government figures and many hiding in German medical...
...infant death rate for 1937, says Dr. Gumpert, represents a rise of 1.5% over the previous year in the cities. Manhattan lost 4.5% of its babies; Holland lost 3.8%. And Mother Conti should have a hard job explaining to her son why cases of puerperal (childbed) fever jumped from...
...Says Dr. Gumpert: The T. B. death rate may have dropped, but there are now 1,500,000 cases of t. b. in Germany, more than one-fourth of them advanced. According to Nazi medical theory, best cure for the disease is "hard, compulsory labor...
Reporters who went out last week to get copy about Berlin's free civic lipsticks, rouge and eyebrow pencils, were tolerantly received by Dr. M. Gumpert, director of the Bureau and a plastic surgeon of renown. They did not quite understand, he said. There will be no free "cosmetics" as that frivolous term is commonly understood. Instead, the Bureau will try earnestly and scientifically to render reasonably presentable poor folk who are now too repulsive in appearance to get work. Citing cases among the pitifully ugly and poor who applied to the Bureau on its opening day, Dr. Gumpert...