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Tragic fact is that the rising death rate from diabetes is by no means inevitable and is needlessly high. Many sufferers can forestall a diabetic death by following a diet prescribed by a physician. It is significant that diabetic doctors die of the disease only one-fourth as often as diabetic laymen...
Dreadful Solitude. In 1347 the Black Death appeared on the eastern horizon of Europe like a "thick, stinking mist." By 1349 the whole continent was sick and demoralized. At least one-fourth of central Europe's population died in the greatest disaster which ever befell the Continent. Half the population of England died. At Avignon the Pope consecrated the Rhone so that corpses could be dumped into it for Christian burial. In Italy Petrarch wept over "the empty houses, the abandoned towns, the squalid country, the fields crowded with the dead, the vast and dreadful solitude over the whole...
Gonococcic Arthritis (a frequent product of gonorrhea) is the easiest form to cure. It usually settles in the knee, ankle or shoulder and cripples about one-fourth of its victims. But early dosing with sulfa drugs brings "striking improvement" within three days. Gouty arthritis-from which more & more U.S. men are suffering-is not curable, but colchicine (a drug from a European lilylike plant) relieves it "spectacularly," although colchicine is of no use in treating any other form of arthritis...
Though approximately one-fourth of Russia's 240 million acres of farmland had been overrun by the Germans, there were about 40 million fewer mouths to feed (those left in occupied areas and those who had died). Final harvest figures were far from complete, but they seemed the best in years, assuring Russia of at least as much food as last year. Beamed the Moscow News: "The Soviet countryside succeeded not only in coping with the increased state plan for grain, vegetables and industrial crops, but also in topping it on a scale in excess of the most optimistic...
...Weight of the average engagement-ring diamond: one-half to one-fourth karat...