Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historians have always believed that Britain's King George III was insane. Now two London psychiatrists have gone back over the medical records, including some still unpublished, and concluded that the historians are nuts. Dr. Richard Hunter and his mother, Dr. Ida Macalpine, wrote in the British Medical Journal that George was obviously suffering from "acute, intermittent porphyria," a rare liver disease that upset the royal nervous system and made the king delirious...
...doctrinal problems have been resolved. Last summer, a group of top-ranking Protestant, Orthodox and Catholic theologians met at St. John's Benedictine Abbey in Minnesota to compare and contrast the pieties of their churches. The papers from this unique conference appear in the current Worship, a monthly journal on liturgy published by the monks of St. John...
This week, in the American Journal of Pathology, two San Francisco doctors offer an unexpected reply: the clot forms as the result of a reaction between arterial blood and material from a diseased part of the artery's walls. Along with the scaly deposit, it makes a plug that blocks blood flow...
...Civil Government. It was indifferently received during his lifetime, and it did not get its more familiar name, Civil Disobedience, until after his death. Emerson, Thoreau's mentor and neighbor, found his friend's reaction "mean and skulking and in bad taste" and later wrote in his journal: "The State is a poor cow who does well by you-do not grudge...
...Harvard nutritionist has written a letter to the British Medical Journal advocating that intra-uterine contraceptive devices--IUD--be fitted for young girls...