Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your remarks regarding my editorial in the American Journal of Surgery . . . made for an erroneous indictment of both the physician and the psychiatrist. I neither said nor implied that "Almost every patient who dies of carcinoma . . . has been diagnosed as a psychoneurotic" [TIME, June 21]. The dots delete the important words: "of the body or tail of the pancreas." This tumor . . . gives no physical signs and produces no symptoms other than a vague abdominal pain, and furthermore, defies all methods of diagnosis including X-ray and laboratory studies. Only surgical exploration will provide the answer...
...Readers of this journal will recall the interesting account that appeared some time ago of the experiments in which pieces of toast and marmalade were dropped on various samples of carpet arranged in order of quality from coir [coconut fiber] matting to the finest Kirman rugs; the marmalade-downwards incidence was found to vary directly with the quality of the carpet . . . Gonk's Hypothesis, formulated by our own Professor Gonk, of the Cambridge Trichological Institute, states that a subject who has rubbed a wet shaving brush over his face before applying the cream cannot, however long and furiously...
...organs will be affected. The kind of personality, rather than the kind of shock, is the key. The same kind of shock (e.g., death of a relative or loss of a job) might give one type of man stomach ulcers, another, ulcerative colitis. In the current New York State Journal of Medicine, Drs. Moschowitz and Roudin wrapped up some classifications...
...Among others on Johnson's list: the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal...
California citrus growers were plagued by an opposite turn of nature. The Wall Street Journal reported that for the fourth successive year, Valencia oranges had mysteriously grown smaller. It took an average of 277 of them to fill a crate this year, as compared with 276 in 1947, 264 in 1946, 254 in 1945, 220 before that. The University of California's citrus experiment station admitted that it had no clues. One desperate expert talked darkly of "the effects of sunspots...