Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, in its synopsis of medicine (July 22), did not take time to explain fully the A. M. A. Journal's article on mercurochrome. Readers are likely to be left with the impression that the red dye has been shown to be more efficacious than tincture of iodine as an antiseptic. You fail to state that when drug-buyers ask for mercurochrome, they are not getting the tincture, which Miss Hill described as being more bacteriostatic than a 7% tincture of iodine. They are handed instead a 2% aqueous solution, since few places outside of institutions carry the tincture...
...also state that Miss Hill's researches ''quieted the suspicions' of mercurochrome's usefulness. A reading of the editorial in the same issue of the A. M. A. Journal might have convinced you otherwise. That, which is in the nature of a survey of the clinical literature on the subject, indicates that other experimentations have been definitely less favorable towards mercurochrome's value, and that Miss Hill's procedure was not flawless...
Meanwhile Dr. McCormick read medical literature on tobacco smoking and, with the evidence his dead hares supplied, eventually reached conclusions which the American Journal of Hygiene published this week...
...plump and gentle little body of 58, Mrs. Mahnkey's journalism is only a sideline. What she is really interested in is her poetry, which Missouri literary folk like Rose Wilder Lane would like to see properly published. A contributor of verse, letters and farm gossip to Country Home for years, Mrs. Mahnkey was partly responsible for the magazine's contest, having suggested such an event last spring. Editor Wheeler McMillen, once director of an Ohio country paper, and Editor Russell Lord, who takes more pride in his Maryland farm than in the fact that he edited...
Last week the Wall Street Journal tabulated statements of the first 25 U. S. corporations to report for the June quarter, found aggregate profits up 7% from the same three months of 1934. The gain for the six-month period was almost precisely the same. For a slightly smaller group which had published comparable reports in the past, June quarter profits were 40% above 1933, 102% above 1932, but still below 1931. No major steel companies had reported by last week but the rest of U. S. industry had been fairly sampled...