Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the top heart specialist of the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Frederick Arthur Willius, declared that pessimism and apprehension are only half warranted, that nine out of 20 victims of heart attacks survive a number of years. In the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Willius presented table after table of statistics taken from the Mayo Clinic's records of cardiac patients. These revealed that people who suffer an attack of coronary thrombosis between the ages of 30 and 40 have excellent chances of survival. This record contradicts "the comment frequently heard that coronary thrombosis in the early...
Shrewd Knoxvillians guessed that new Publisher Lotspeich was not alone in getting the Journal out of hock. Back of him were supposed to be his fellow members in the potent Tennessee Manufacturers' Association, who wish to insure the continuation of the Journal's strong Republican slant...
Last week another Johns Hopkins pathologist, Dr. Dean Howard Affleck, 30, took up Dr. Bloodgood's megaphone and through the American Journal of Cancer sounded the same alarm...
Last week Editor Morris Fishbein, who is particularly interested in purpura, published in his Journal of the American Medical Association two ways of treating that blood disease. The methods were equally inexplicable, equally poisonous. In purpura blood escapes from capillaries and collects under the skin or mucous membranes in spots which range in size from pinpoints to silver dollars, in color from flaming red to black & blue. Bruises cause transient purpuric blotches called ecchymoses. Typhus fever causes dotty purpura or petechiae. The kind of purpura which interested Dr. Fishbein last week was thrombocyto-penic purpura. Victims of this condition...
...back to the Tower and much troubled again with my eyes. I do fear that one day I must forbear to write my journal it taxing my sight exceedingly, and then again I know my days are few, but God prepare I will continue until the year is done. Thence to bed, sleeping on my side, being very sore...