Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good health except that he had suffered from heart trouble. His daughter Winifred was to be married to a London physician. He went to London to attend the wedding. The wedding took place as scheduled except that no guests were present but members of the immediate families. The reason was that the night before Dr. Herdman had died of heart trouble in a London hotel...
...doctor, enraged because he could buy liquor publicly for his pleasure more easily than he could prescribe it for his patients' health, visited enforcement headquarters in Manhattan...
...doctors and nurses crusaded up and down the streets, stopped pedestrians, examined them for vaccination marks, vaccinated those who could not exhibit recent ones. Policemen at corners prevented entrance or exit to each street as it went under surveillance. In 24 hours, 10,000 were reported vaccinated. Then health officials announced to a worried public that there would be no smallpox epidemic. Since Jan. 1, 83 cases of smallpox had been reported, 19 of them in one day last week...
...Penobscot Bay and came to land. John William Davis disembarked. On the dock waiting for him was Charles Dana Gibson, his host. The creator of the Gibson Girl, the publisher of Life, was there despite his physician's orders. A recent illness had required him to guard his health closely, but friendship and hospitality had temporarily overruled the art of healing...
...case, for example, will say that I was about to 'be given up with pneumonia when I took up the Macfadden system of obtaining health. I weighed 89 Ibs. After following it for years I weighed nearly 200 when I dropped it and recently I became too heavy and took up his exercises and diet while he was in Washington and have lost 36 Ibs. and never felt 'better in my life. This is a brief testimony which could be repeated by thousands of people...