Word: journalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mollify this crowd the U.S. Embassy sent grey-haired Commander Herbert Agar, U.S.N.R., looking like the young Dante in a Navy uniform. Herbert Agar, onetime editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, for the past two and a half years a special assistant to U.S. Ambassador Winant, has long been an eloquent interpreter of the U.S. to Britain...
...Boric acid, the old home remedy stand by, got some hard words in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It can be fatal when it gets into a baby's for mula by mistake and, says Dr. E. H. Watson of Ann Arbor, Mich.: "As a lavage to remove pus from the eye, a weak solution of sodium bicarbonate is much more effective." His advice: throw that boric acid out of the medicine cabinet...
Died. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 78, neuropsychiatrist, editor (Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease), belligerent Freudian, whose testimony in 1907 saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair; after long illness; at Huletts Landing, N.Y. He once told a group of fellow alienists that he believed Irving Berlin's mother must have had a syncopated heartbeat; a surprised confrere said that he had examined her and found...
...modern pediatricians are suggesting a dreadfully old-fashioned practice: putting newborn babies in the same room with their mothers. Mrs. Frances P. Sim-sarian, mother of two, and Pediatrician Preston Alexander McLendon of Washington have made some happy discoveries about the procedure. Last month they enthusiastically told Journal of Pediatrics readers...
Benzedrine also has its ,addicts and can produce bizarre symptoms. An interesting case was reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine: a neurotic 49-year-old lawyer, formerly a very heavy drinker, who originally took the drug on a doctor's prescription for an "all-gone feeling." He found that "the effect of the drug was so stimulating that he gave up the use of alcohol. . . ." From a starting dose of a twenty-fifth of a gram a day, he worked up to one-quarter of a gram a day in five years...