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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacked by sickness similar to the dread staggers, bends, or caisson disease of divers. Cause of "aeroembolism" is formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and spinal fluid. Symptoms are neuritis, joint pains, a heavy red rash, burning and stabbing pain in the lungs, a weird tingling "like a small compact colony of ants rushing madly over the surface of the body." For aeroembolism, only thing to do is come down in a hurry...
Even doctors, some of whom have been "terrible sufferers," find it hard to speak of gout with a straight face. Some, like their patients, pride themselves on their virile infirmity. Osier quotes approvingly Germany's Willibald Pirkheimer (translated into English in 1617) : "I take no pleasure," he wrote, "in those hard, rough, rusticke, agresticke kind of people who are never at rest, but ... are moyling and toyling, do seldom or never give themselves to pleasure, do endure hunger, which are content with a slender diet...
...doctors had followed like hawks the zigzag progress of 124 drunkards (100 male, 24 female) in McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass. "A more variegated collection of personalities," they wrote, "would be difficult to assemble: some were sociable, some seclusive, some stubborn, some easily influenced, some cyclothymic [manic-depressive], some schizoid [ingrown] , some intelligent, some dull and so on, ad infinitum; the only trait these people seemed to have in common was addiction to the excessive use of alcohol." Why they drank, the doctors found it impossible to discover...
Nothing so infuriates a minister named Jones as being called "Reverend Jones." Reverend is an adjective, not a title. If a parson is not a doctor (D.D. or Ph.D.), he is, like other men, a mister.* Last week the Ministerial Association of Lansing, Mich, formally resolved that "in addressing one another, or in referring to one another in speech or in writing, we discard all titles except that of mister." Lansing's reverend misters hoped that their friends and the press would stop infuriating them...
...Christian Front is an "antiCommunist" organization of followers of the Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. It is also the name of a loose federation of anti-Semitic societies, with an estimated 100,000 members. Some of these Christians (like the German-American Bund, the Christian Mobilizers), have actually been tut-tutted by Father Coughlin.* Last week the Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation, representing nearly all the Protestants in that strongly Coughlinite borough, sounded off against the Christian Front in no tut-tutting terms...