Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them some land and some justice, had made a personal tour of the back country, patting babies and cattle, drinking many a glass of cow's milk and goat's milk. But the one thing a Mexican President needs to rule his fermenting country is abounding, virile health. Last week, surrounded by enemies, President Cardenas to his disgust felt sick as a dog. Newshawks were told he had Malta fever, so named because British Navy men stationed in the Mediterranean once got it from the milk of Maltese goats...
...medical society had an easy answer: the law forbade. Of three Buffalo clergymen of three different faiths, two expressed themselves in favor of euthanasia. In Washington, a U. S. Public Health surgeon declared that mercy killing was outlawed in this clause of the oath of Hippocrates: "If any shall ask of me a drug to produce death I will not give it nor will I suggest such counsel." In Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Logan Clendening (The Human Body), who likes to pooh-pooh the fears of hypochondriacs, said the question was outside the medical profession's province. In Chicago...
...Michigan read a paper on the history of the toothbrush. Lithe Dr. Julius Hughes of Atlanta scored 76 and 73 in the golf tournament to walk away with the low gross in Class A. There was a plantation dance in the Municipal Auditorium. A resolution was passed disapproving compulsory health insurance, another thanking President Roosevelt for his letter of greeting. Convivial caretakers of the nation's teeth roamed the French quarter, munched pralines, had Sazerac cocktails and crepes suzette for dinner. There was not much public oratory and reporters looking for details on such matters as "Technic for Drawing...
...Albany, N. Y., State Health Commissioner Thomas Parran Jr. promptly endorsed Editor Fishbein's fulminations, darkly warned: "Alkalosis is just as deleterious to health as acidosis...
...literary viewpoint, but rather more from the viewpoint of the intrinsic value of the man derived from them. His letters and manuscripts give a new insight into the nature of the writer. A memorandum found among his papers after his death has rather pathetic reference to his ill health and the discouraging effect which it had on him. "I am glad," he writes, "to say that I do now recognize that I shall never be a great man," and in another place he indicates that he desires good health above all else...