Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vitamin B, eight D's, three H's and a K. Each of these should be assigned a separate letter, according to the nomenclature suggested by Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist who in 1911 invented the word vitamin to describe these food elements essential to good health. But there are not enough letters in the English alphabet to go around. In addition to that difficulty, special students of vitamins are so bewildered by the mounting mass of facts about vitamins, that Professor Clive Maine McCay of Cornell put his tongue in his cheek and wrote for last week...
Occidental Governments so fear the spread of China's pestilences that the U. S. Public Health Service has an outpost at Hong Kong, which last week reported the main foci of the epidemic as in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Hoihow, Macao. Amoy and Foochow were being scrutinized closely. The League of Nations has established a central observation post in Singapore, and last week the League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally...
Calling attention to typhus, smallpox, typhoid, dysentery, meningitis, diphtheria, tuberculosis and venereal disease, the League's Health Committee pessimistically declared: "The diseases enumerated above do not exhaust the list of possible epidemics which may result from military operations in China or from their repercussions." Dr. Victor Hoo Chi-tsai, China's representative on the Health Committee, asked that anti-epidemic units be sent to China without delay. For this the League's Assembly immediately provided...
...self-protection of the U. S.. Surgeon General Parran of the Public Health Service comfortably announced: "It is not believed by Public Health Service quarantine officers that the west coast seaports of the United States are likely to become infected, for the reason that, since the incubation period of cholera is only five days, outbreaks on shipboard will occur and the disease will become manifest long before a ship from infected ports could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted...
When three bishops were put in nomination for this strengthened post, it was immediately apparent that one, the incumbent Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, now 66, would have to retire before the next triennial convention (he has furthermore been in poor health), while of the other two, Bishop William Bertrand Stevens, 52, of Los Angeles, or Bishop William George McDowell Jr., 55, of Alabama, either if elected would serve for more than a decade. Last-minute lobbying for a presiding bishop who would be in the saddle a little more briefly, produced, when the bishops gathered to vote behind...