Word: josephson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While The Lords of Creation contains much material that readers of John T. Flynn (God's Gold), Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons) and Lewis Corey (The House of Morgan) will find familiar, it assembles this scattered material in readable fashion but employs it to point no novel or daring conclusion...
EMANUEL M. JOSEPHSON...
Public hopes will "rise or fall" on what they read in TIME and not on what Dr. Josephson et al., write for scientific publications...
...every TIME-statement there must he either reliable witness or reputable authority. In this case, Dr. Langdon's quarrel is not with TIME but with Dr. Josephson whose report on cortin in Science, a reputable publication. TIME accurately reported. Whether public hopes rise or fall is the responsibility of Dr. Josephson not of TIME...
Such leakage occurs in glaucomatous eyes. Dr. Josephson reasoned, probably because the patient's adrenals supply too little cortin. He bought some cortin at a drugstore, injected it into the muscles of glaucomatous patients. Usually within half an hour eye pressure dropped to normal, tension and pain in the eyeballs ceased and many purblind patients could see clearly for the first time in years. Pursuing a hypothesis, Dr. Josephson gave cortin to nearsighted children. In most cases their vision also promptly improved. That must mean, he decided, that myopia and glaucoma are due to the same thing...