Word: lancet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME CHECK THE ORIGINAL CAPE TOWN REPORT IN THE "LANCET" AND REALIZE THAT THESE ENTHUSIASTIC COMMENTS WERE BASED ON ONLY EIGHT SUBJECTS WITH OBSERVATION PERIODS AVERAGING ONLY TEN DAYS? THE STUDY WITH THE TEN EGGS WAS ON ONLY TWO SUBJECTS. WHAT'S THE EVIDENCE FOR STATEMENTS THAT "THE PROPORTION OF FAT HAS GONE UP FROM 31% TO 41%, AND THE PROPORTION OF SATURATED TO UNSATURATED FATS HAS INCREASED STILL MORE SHARPLY"? IF THESE ARE CHANGES MEASURED BY RETAIL SALES OR AVAILABILITY OF FATS THEY PROVE NOTHING CONCERNING CHANGES IN FAT CONSUMPTION. FATS MAY WELL BE CONCERNED WITH ATHERO SCLEROSIS...
...modern Lancet is less angry−principally because most of the reforms it advocated have been put into effect− it is nonetheless outspoken and alert. In 1952, a few days after King George VI of Great Britain died, the Lancet frankly discussed the King's ailments (Buerger's disease, lung cancer and arteriosclerosis) and the immediate cause of his death (coronary thrombosis). It has also reported candidly about the low standards of general practice under the British National Health Service, about bad conditions in mental hospitals, about the problems of the aged...
...Lancet touched off another major debate by charging that London Surgeon Sir Henry Thompson had caused the death of exiled Emperor Napoleon III by operating on him for a bladder stone by lithotrity (penetration into the urethra by a pair of forceps) instead of lithotomy (incision into the bladder...
Zippers & Telephones. The wider interests of the Lancet's current editor, Dr. T. F. Fox−a medical-school graduate but never a practicing physician−are reflected in such salty recent discussions as the effects of contraception on the national IQ, the dangers of infection from public telephones and the obsoleteness of bedpans (the Lancet favors mobile bedside commodes). In essays from subscribers ("Peripatetic Correspondents"), the Lancet is likely to wander into even more esoteric fields. Recent correspondents discussed jammed zippers on men's trousers, the moral rights of physicians to evade traffic rules, the hazards...
...fare of solid fact and far-ranging fancy, with only a five-man staff to help, Editor Fox and the Lancet have achieved an influence far greater than the magazine's estimated 30,000-reader circulation would indicate. The Lancet occupies a place all its own in the affections of the medical profession. Says one G.P., paying it the ultimate tribute: "It's the only medical journal I've ever heard of that one's wife can actually read...