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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moss grown on a human skull, the thigh bone of a hanged man, the ashes of a coal-black cat's head, animal excrement, black tips of crab's claws, burned hart's horn, toads, newts, serpents-these were medi- eval medicaments whose use has not yet entirely disappeared. Last week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Viper Heads | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

Married. Brig. General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., 55, chief of the 4th Section (supplies and evacuation) of General Pershing's Wartime General Staff; General Charles Gates Dawes's assistant in organizing the Bureau of Budget in 1921; now aid to the Assistant Secretary of War, Frederik Huff Payne (TIME, May 5); and Mrs. Florence DuBois, 36, daughter of the late James Barber, co-founder of Barber Steamship Lines; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 7, 1930 | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

When college authorities at Ithaca threatened to act against Editors Horn and Blummer, the young men succeeded in closing the affair by despatching to each gulled guest the following message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hugo N. Frye | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Last month Editors Edward T. Horn and Lester A. Blummer of the "Berry Patch" (funny) column in the Cornell Daily Sun decided that the time had come to celebrate the 150th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hugo N. Frye | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Next day the joke was out. Hugo N. Frye was even less than a memory; he was nothing more than a fabrication of the imaginations of Editors Horn and Blummer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hugo N. Frye | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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