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Dr. Evans believes that chronic arthritis can often be prevented if oxygen is injected into the joints when they first begin to swell. The oxygen, he claims, has a threefold action: 1) it seems to act as a buffer between inflamed cells, separating them, opening lymph channels for drainage, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Help for Rheumatism | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Thus Roosevelt faced a Brobdingnagian chore. He must now win back to his side not a mere electoral majority but a working majority-a far larger number-of the country's citizens. In these inflamed times it was a task for a leader of Lincolnian humility, Wilsonian morality, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-ELECTION: To the Lighthouse | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Most surgeons prefer to cut out the gall bladder with the stones because a sack, once diseased, usually becomes inflamed again. The operation is not difficult, and since the gall bladder is not an essential organ (horses have none), a patient need only follow a low-fat diet to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Speaking of Operations | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

If a man suffering from gallstones went to a textbook of surgery to study his disease, he. would find things like this: "Whereas in cases of simple cholelithiasis cholecystostomy is the operation of choice, in cases of acute calculous cholecystitis cholecystectomy is to be preferred." In plainer English: In cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Speaking of Operations | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Jean Baptiste Poquelin, son of respectable parents, assumed the name "Móliere" when he joined an unrespectable troupe of vagabond players. For 13 years he mimed through the provinces, died at 51, coughing and spitting blood, less than an hour after playing the title role in his Le Malade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conspicuous Consumption | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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