Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Detroit clue pointed to Bellaire, Ohio's $25-a-month Health Commissioner, squint-eyed Dr. William Jacob ("Dr. Billy'') Shepard as commander-in-chief. To citizens there "Dr. Billy" was a "harmless old coot." incurably hipped on the preservation of Southern chivalry. Eleven years ago he appeared at a Ku Klux Klan meeting dressed in black, attended by "Black Guards," stirred up Klan resentment. He withdrew with his Black Guards, who apparently burgeoned, without his assistance, into the Legion. Refusing to define his position, "Dr. Billy" said: "You have to have mystery in a fraternal thing...
Last winter world headlines told of Italian hospital ships unloading thousands of Italian sick in secret sick dumps on the island of Rhodes, of countless Italian crosses on the plains of Eritrea. Sir Aldo smiled. Last week, arriving in Addis Ababa, he made his health report on the Italo-Ethiopian...
...properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys. However, the final test will have to be made on the human patient, and here [we have] the invaluable assistance of the U. S. Public Health Service...
Federal experiments take place gingerly on Public Health Service's Narcotics Farm, opened last year at Lexington, Ky. Only carefully selected patients, upon whom no harm is apt to fall, received morphine substitutes. The regular procedure is to give such an addict the new drug while he is deprived of morphine. If he throws no deprivation fits, the new drug is considered an effective narcotic. After several days of this, the patient is deprived of all drugs. If he throws a fit, this proves that the substitute is also habit-forming...
Concern over the mothers' comfort during confinement and health thereafter is a phenomenon so utterly modern that it caused a great splatter of headlines in the lay Press at the meeting of the American Medical Association in Kansas City last week...