Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year later, she married a brilliant diplomat?John Wallace Riddle, but bad luck on the ocean continued to harass her and, a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 23), Mr. Riddle was forced to resign his post as Ambassador to Argentina because her health forbade her venturing again upon the ocean...
...well in hand, called forth fresh outbursts from antiserum faddists, notably Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle to vulgarians of "physical culture." Macfadden's Manhattan sheetlet, The Graphic, ran "screamers" about "two persons known to be dead from tetanus following the injection of pus from diseased animals" in Baltimore. Health officials admitted the deaths from tetanus, then explained to the newspaper that the serum injected was not "cow-pox," but human smallpox, scientifically prepared in the glycerated lymph of calves. "This," said The Graphic, "is little else than a form of variolation which was outlawed by the British Parliament because...
...Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming : "Since January 1, 1912, the Public Health Service has tabulated the vaccination histories of 120,501 cases of smallpox. Of this number, 110,075, or 91.35%, never had been vaccinated; 6,610, or 5.48%, had not been vaccinated for more than 7 years, many of them from 10 to 50 years. Of those who had been vaccinated within 7 years, there were 3,810, or only...
...whose plant at Bayway, N.J., workers manufacturing tetraethyl lead went mad with lead poisoning last fall and died in straight jackets (TIME, Nov. 10). For the prosecution there will be scientists who maintain that a U. S. Bureau of Mines report, issued at Pittsburgh in November and accepted by health authorities as a clean bill of health for leaded gasoline, was inconclusive and premature...
...Manhattan, as his contribution to National Child Health Day, Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist of Cornell University Medical College, last week published hints for parents: "Don't keep the child tied to his mother's apron strings. . . . Let him pay for his mistakes. . . . Most people like to be thought out of the common, and if a youngster finds he can acquire a reputation for eccentricity by refusing to take his food or lying down and kicking, he will do so in and out of season. . . . Remember your child is an adult in miniature with an intense emotional life which...