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Moss grown on a human skull, the thigh bone of a hanged man, the ashes of a coal-black cat's head, animal excrement, black tips of crab's claws, burned hart's horn, toads, newts, serpents-these were medi- eval medicaments whose use has not yet entirely disappeared. Last week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently...
...invaluable "Tilly" summons a different couple to play bridge on the counterpane of his enormous bed. Orchidaceous Novelist Carl Van Vechten stops in from time to time to emit epigrams. Bearded Georges Barrere, Little Symphony Conductor, comes to play the flute. Most faithful is New York's Chief Medi-cal Examiner, Dr. Charles ("Buck") Norris...
...crowds cheered Chaliapin again last week, as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust, a benefit performance which made $7,500 for his Sir Wilfred Grenfell's medi cal mission in Labrador. Lest his audiences should fail to count themselves as blessed, the Great One let it be known that next year he would stay in Europe, traveling, taking his little pleasures.* In the U. S. there are concert tours, a few operatic appearances, fabulous offers from cinema concerns. But in Europe, with friends and family who call him "the little angel papa," he will rest, wear his rough clothes, thunder...
...lose but rather gained prestige after this prodigious but chery of his own troops, for he had himself fought in the thick of it. The reformed sinner, now a mighty hero, retired after his vic tory to a Buddhist temple for three months, a vacation period of medi tation which he has several times since repeated. The year 1922 found him in Moscow, acting as military liason officer for Dr. Sun, who had despaired by then of receiving aid from any other Great Power for his project of conquering China in the name of Nationalism, or "China for the Chinese...
...moderate means who can not afford the cost of private rooms in hospitals and do not wish to suffer what seemed to them the humiliation of free wards. Alba Boardman Johnson, onetime (1911-19) president of the Bald win Locomotive Works and for years trustee of the Jefferson Medi cal College and Hospital, Philadelphia, suggested that wealthy patrons endow hospitals sufficiently so that these could afford to charge patients only $2 daily. "Probably 80% of the people may be classed as people of moderate means. The other 20% is divided between the rich...