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...hold off their wails till birth. Throughout history some restless infants were reported to have cried in the womb, but until relatively modern times doctors and midwives often thought it best not to publicize the fact lest they be accused of witchcraft. Last week in Britain's Lancet, a doctor described a latter-day occurrence of the phenomenon, known as vagitus uterinus (from the Latin vagire, to squall...
...venerable employee of the Lambert Pharmacal Co., makers of Listerine, opened his book of news clippings and said: "It says in the British Lancet that in cases of halitosis...
...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...
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...