Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modens Ellermann, after examining the records of 231 drunks (all men) in Saint Hans Mental Hospital in Copenhagen. He found that 72 were insane, another 55 were "constitutional psychopaths" with deformed personalities and a lack of moral responsibility. The Saint Hans alcoholics, he reported last week in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, were quarrelsome, they undermined hospital discipline, and 79% relapsed after a short dry period...
...fashioned political infighting, and effective; but the odds were still on St. Laurent. The Ottawa Journal put it this way: "Our guess is that Mr. Gardiner will not win the party leadership. We would bet all the tea in China, though, that when he goes down it will be with all his banners flying...
Most of the time, Dr. Ehrenwald reported last week in the quarterly American Journal of Psychotherapy, morning depression is just unpleasant. It can occur in people who are mentally and physically healthy. They are victims of "dissociated waking": i.e., they wake up by bits and pieces. Their bodies are awake, but their minds are still asleep. Or, he thinks, their consciences are awake and needling the rest of the still sleepy conscious mind to get up and go to work...
Last week Miss Stenz dared Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, to make a scientific test of her treatment. Boasted she: "I will grow hair on any person chosen by the A.M.A. and do it under observation." Dr. Fishbein wasn't having any. Said he, fingering his own bald head and repeating an ancient wheeze: "'Any ass in Athens can grow more hair than the wisest man.' These cells are dead. Anybody who can restore hair in dead cells can restore people from the grave...
...safe. For seven years Dr. J. Roswell Gallagher kept track of boys who swam and those who didn't in the Phillips Academy pool at Andover, Mass. Number of hospital admissions for respiratory tract infections was 14% greater among the swimmers, he reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. Acute sinusitis was almost twice as high; mumps and measles spread more rapidly among the swimmers. But the total number of days spent in the hospital was about the same for swimmers and nonswimmers: the boys who didn't catch cold in the pool got banged up playing...