Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vitus Dance. At Albany, Dr. H. L. K. Shaw of the State Department of Health talked over the radio last week about St. Vitus Dance, the mildest, most hopeful form of chorea. Children, especially girls, are susceptible to this disease, which is usually the expression of mental exhaustion, although it may be an end result of maldevelopment or of various contagious diseases?tonsillitis, measles, whooping cough. Cure is usually effected by quiet surroundings, rest in bed, full diet with plenty of fatty ingredients (milk, eggs), and above all the eliminating of the causative conditions. Relapses occur?the signs of trembling...
Herman N. Bundesen, M. D., of the Chicago department of health, issued a bulletin last week which contained an interesting fact and an atrocious example of medical wit. The fact concerned conjugality: married men live longer than single men, longer than divorced men. Dr. Bundesen supported this statement with statistics gathered from four groups, arranged according to age. Then, by way of summary, he offered the sample of his** humor...
...seems that marriage is certainly good for the health when we consider the young fellows of 65 and over. Out of 1,000 of these divorced boys, 116 play harps in heaven; out of 1,000 single fellows of the same age group, 112 enter the angelic host; while out of 1,000 married youngsters of the same age-group, only 80, with 'storm and strife' to contend with, knock at St. Peter's Pearly Gates...
...Though the Occidental concept of Satan belongs to the postexilic period of Hebrew development and has no exact Indian counterpart, the word is here employed as the nearest translation of Kali (The Black), dread Indian devourer, cruel goddess of destruction and death. **Doubtless Health Officer Bundesen was responsible only indirectly. It is the usual thing for officials to get their publicity sheets written by underpaid newspaper reporters, the majority of whom are constantly on the lookout for "outside work" of any kind to fatten their slender purses...