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Eyes, Ears & Nose. All victims of mongolism have three things in common: 1) mental deficiency, 2) short heads, 3) faces which seem to have been flattened (actually, growth is arrested). Besides these constants, other defects are found so often in mongolism that Dr. Ingalls got a vital clue from analyzing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mice, Men & Mongolism | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

In 1913 his first book, "The Ice Lens," caused a commotion on the campus. It described the evil and vice of undergraduate life at Yale. From then until 1940 Gundelfinger produced more than 40 books and articles from his New Fraternity press, and swamped Yale with "den of iniquity" pamphlets...

Author: By N. J. C., | Title: Pamphleteer George Gundelfinger Is Soiled Galahad of Yale Morals | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

Purists will probably carp at some changes, e.g., at least two of the play's characters have disappeared, leaving their crucial lines to be read by others. But ironically, the picture's weakness lies in its fidelity to Rostand's design rather than in the liberties it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 20, 1950 | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Much of Susruta's knowledge was lost to the world for centuries. Not until the 17th Century was the true position of the lens (directly behind the pupil, with no intervening "cataract space") rediscovered; not until the 18th Century was a whole defective lens removed. Over the centuries, Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Finger for en Eye | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Capsule & All. With growing knowledge and improved technique progress was speeded up. Ways were found to remove a cataract without damaging the rest of the eye and with little danger of recurrence. Surgeons now use either of two methods: removing the hardened gelatinous interior of the lens but leaving in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Finger for en Eye | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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