Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copey" is still an institution, although retired from active teaching several years ago, and moved from Hollis Hall, where for a quarter century he held court and stimulated would-be writers by sharpening their interests and widening their contacts. Ill health and advancing years have crippled his frame but left his spirit youthful. He has been known to complain that he comes of long-lived Maine stock, and that his grandfather died at the age of ninety-two, not from sickness or natural causes, but because an elm tree fell upon him and crushed him. Professor Copeland at that...
...birth infections [TIME, March 22]. The instance cited is as irrelevant to the prevention of blindness in infants as is the popularity of the artist or the names of prominent people whom he has painted. It is important only as it is misleading and might obstruct essential health measures...
...again no matter how this belief is conveyed to him. A positive assurance made by the person in whom he has faith will usually effect a cure. A typical instance of this is described in the little booklet, "What You Should Know About Eyes," forming one of the National Health Series published by Funk & Wagnalls...
Very different, however, is the condition of the baby's eyes which the health officer [Dr. George C. Ruhland] of the District of Columbia is endeavoring to avert. A certain number of children in every community are infected at birth or soon after with a most virulent pus, often gonorrheal, which gets into their eyes from the birth passages of the mother. It excites an inflammation so intense that in many cases the eyes are irrevocably lost before it can be controlled. The discovery made more than half a century ago, that the organisms causing this inflammation could...
This week University of Chicago's director of health, Dr. Dudley B. Reed, was to publish a warning in the University's daily paper. University of Minnesota's Dr. Ruth Boynton already warned, without much apparent good: "It's burning the candle at both ends. It means burning up more energy than the body has time to replenish. While we know the pills keep one awake, so little is actually known of their cumulative effects that we think it unwise for students to take them without a physician's advice. No more than...