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Word: maying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometime detractors, feel that he has been shabbily treated by the A.M.A. after 37 years of faithful, loud-voiced service. But Fishbein, showing no malice, says: "I never get mad at anybody. I stopped having feelings long ago." But those who have dared Dr. Fishbein's displeasure may eventually get their comeuppance: he is already at work on his memoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No Time to Retire | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Kala-azar is found in the Mediterranean basin, in India (where it got its name, meaning black disease), China and Brazil. Prewar cases in the U.S. were mostly Lascar seamen or visitors from the Orient. Then scores of U.S. servicemen caught the disease. Many cases may still be lurking in veterans' bloodstreams as "undiagnosed fever." U.S. doctors have been alerted against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dangerous Souvenir | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...take these drugs "become drowsy or even fall asleep while at work or ... driving cars or operating machinery. Experience with these drugs is not yet long enough to know whether or not they are harmless when used over long periods of time. Furthermore, the amounts taken in persistent colds may be definitely beyond what has been established as safe." As a guardian of the public's welfare, the council promised to look further into the controversial matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Incomplete Evidence | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...patent-medicine advertisers, that waste matter retained in the colon causes self-poisoning. Current medical belief denies this. Furthermore, most so-called constipation is nothing of the sort; daily elimination is not necessary to everybody's health. Fof some people, an interval of two days or more may be natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: By Bulk | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...aide in death-house garb, seated him in the chair and had his picture taken. Nevertheless, the Herald-American's Executive Editor George A. De Witt insisted that his photo was genuine, but he refused to explain how it was made. Said he: "Why explain it? There may be more executions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death-House Hullabaloo | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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