Word: healthfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather precocious 12-year-old son, Ally. Sid, who thinks Easy Street is just around the corner, needs $5300 to pay off debts and retain the hotel. So he phones his stupid but well-heeled brother Max in New York and drops a half-truth about Ally's poor health. Whereupon Max and wife Sophie fly down and want to take Ally home with them or marry Sid off to a wealthy young widow; but Sid prefers women's company without responsibility, particularly that of a nympho who has a room upstairs and is out to get "what I want...
...three of his children in a spinal meningitis epidemic in Kansas. Disgusted with medical methods that could not prevent such disaster. Physician Still proclaimed: "I believe that the Maker of man has deposited in the human body drugs in abundance to cure all infirmities . . . All the remedies necessary to health are compounded within the human body." To get the human drug factory working at peak efficiency, Still prescribed lavish doses of spinal manipulation to preserve "structural integrity." For generations, osteopaths faithfully followed Still in emphasis on manipulation, de-emphasis on drugs...
...medically more orthodox. Its constitution had formerly included this paean: "The evolution of osteopathic principles shall be an ever-growing tribute to Andrew Taylor Still." The delegates voted (105 to 16) to drop this and to declare simply: "The objects of this association shall be to promote the public health, to encourage scientific research, and to maintain and improve high standards of medical education in osteopathic colleges...
...last week the A.O.A. hopefully kept its negotiating committee alive. A.O.A. members were as drug-happy as any M.D.s, crowding exhibits by pharmaceutical houses. They got an accolade of respectability with an address by Aims C. McGuinness, an M.D., a noted pediatrician and special assistant for health and medical affairs to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. But there was still a technique session titled "Manipulation of the Infant...
...between Senate and House over how much money to give the National Institutes of Health for the fiscal year just begun (TIME, July 21) the Senate last week got the long end of the rope. With 75% of the funds under both bills earmarked for medical research, the House wanted to up the appropriation to $219 million (from $211 million last year). The Senate wanted to make it $321 million. The conference-approved compromise: $294 million...