Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association remarked that Lydia Pinkham had changed her dress again. In keeping with vitamin fads the preparation is now labeled "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound (With Vitamin B 1 )." Said the Journal: "It is indeed surprising that . . . these old-timers . . . did not select vitamin E [fertility vitamin] . . . since [it] . . . has been endowed with certain effects which were claimed for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It must be granted, however, that there is probably nothing harmful in the addition of vitamin B 1 [anti-beriberi...
...preaching that the South would progress only when it taught its farmers to diversify their crops, raise most of their own food. That is the key-note of the Plant-to-Prosper campaign, started in 1933 by the Commercial Appeal now promoted also by the Atlanta Constitution, Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Chattanooga News. Winner Majure and his family of eight raised $225 worth of their own food this year, have $220 worth on hand, not including some hogs killed this month. They spent only $49.64 for food they did not raise. Thin, round-shouldered Mrs. Majure...
Fortnight ago three-year-old Donald Richardson left Kansas City General Hospital after being cured of Purpura hemorrhagica (capillary bleeding) by injections of cottonmouth venom. The Kansas City Journal-Post related in newsworthy detail how the poison thickened the blood and stopped seepage through the ruptured vessels. The Star merely stated that Donald had been cured by injections of "venom," left it up to readers to guess whether the venom came from Cleopatra's asp or a chemist's test tube...
Although thousands of lives are saved each year through blood transfusions, errors in blood typing are not rare. Most of the errors are due to faulty technique and interpretation rather than mistaken identification. In the New England Journal of Medicine last fortnight, Dr. William Dameshek, Harvard blood specialist, remarked that he had seen five serious blood-transfusion accidents in Boston hospitals within the last two years. Blood typing is a delicate process, said he, and too often it is left to "poorly trained medical students, poorly trained interns or technicians. . . ." Dr. Dameshek urged State departments of health to jack...
...Richard Gregory, noted British author and astronomer, and editor of the scientific journal "Nature," is lecturing tonight at New Lecture Hall on the subject "Religion in Science...