Word: health
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Philadelphian who might have been shopping for fish on Tuesday, was found dead on a chicken farm near Toms River, N.J.; in his refrigerator was a remnant of nitrite-poisoned flounder. Without saying how much they knew or how they had learned it, Philadelphia and Camden health officials sounded the alarm...
...fast, says one of the world's top authorities on infectious diseases and a pioneer of the antibiotic age; disease is an aspect of man's adaptation to his environment, and as his environment changes, so do his diseases-but they do not disappear. In Mirage of Health, published this week (Harper; $4), famed Microbiologist René Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (though no physician) applies laboratory logic to visions of a medical utopia...
...grandfathers; he has the world's highest living standard, but 10% of his income* goes for medical care. "One out of every four citizens will have to spend at least some months or years in a mental asylum. One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration...
Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A medical whodunit in which New York public-health sleuths track an innocent dress buyer who carried in smallpox virus from Rio de Janeiro...
Barber, a diabetic, had taken insulin at 10:30 a.m. on the morning of the day of the accident. Dr. John C. Wells, associate physician of the University Health Services, testified that at the time of the accident the insulin would have had its maximum action...