Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elliott C. Cutler, chief surgeon of Boston's famed Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and his associate, Dr. Robert Zollinger. To them surgery is not only a science but an art, a religion, and a means of self-expression. Last week they published their new folio-sized manual of surgery,* first book of its kind since 1853. Full of brief, "intimate" instructions for every type of standard operation from appendectomy to tonsillectomy, their manual is also crammed with scalpel-neat pen-drawings by Medical Artist Mildred Codding. As important to the authors as the practical instructions for "unfledged surgeons...
...scurvy Vitamin C is oranges and lemons. But in times of war or famine, suggested Biochemist Otto Arthur Bessey of Harvard, almost any kind of seed, kept in water until it sprouts, and then eaten raw, is an excellent substitute. The vitamin has some strange relationship to metabolism, for manual laborers and athletes need large quantities of C-rich foods. Another little-known fact: the vitamin mysteriously disappears from the bodies of tuberculosis patients. Victims of diabetes, when given large amounts of vitamin C, usually require smaller doses of insulin to regulate their carbohydrate metabolism...
...Council Against Intolerance in America (cochairmen: William Allen White, George Gordon Battle, W. Warren Barbour) sent to the nation's high schools a manual called An American Answer to Intolerance, instructing teachers how to immunize pupils against propaganda, teach them not to hate aliens, Jews or Germans (by teaching them to recognize their own prejudices, propagandists' tricks...
Still remembered is Dan Beard's American Boy's Handy Book, Or, What To Do and How To Do It, an exciting manual on kites, knot-tying, boats, trapping, taxidermy, etc., etc. Published in 1882, while Beard was attending Manhattan art school, it made Dan Beard's reputation as a boy's man which even Teddy Roosevelt could not surpass, blazed the way for his Boy Pioneers and Sons of Daniel Boone (forerunners of the Boy Scouts) started as a promotion stunt when he became editor of Recreation...
Even the Prince does not really settle these differences, since Machiavelli planted his ideas so diplomatically that readers expecting something diabolic in the book are sometimes disappointed. But since it came off the Vatican presses in 1532, politicians of all shades have found the Prince such a helpful manual of power, how to get and how to keep it, that it has shared their admiration with only one other book, von Clausewitz's On War. Napoleon called it "the only readable political book." Lenin told his Bolsheviks to read the Prince "as an antidote to stupidity...