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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great majority of human ailments tend towards spontaneous recovery." A doctor must know when to apply "skillful neglect"; i.e., just tell the patient he is going to get well without treatment, or give him a harmless pill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Compleat Practitioner | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Pill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...that Persian philosopher remarked, "Here's to Truth-a bitter pill, but a good physic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Modern man has developed innumerable devices for blowing himself up, giving himself bad eyesight, high blood pressure, flat feet, nervous indigestion, and ossification of the brain. He has produced an atom bomb and a panty girdle, the vitamin pill, the comic book, the subway gum machine, the soap opera and the revolving door. But in the minds of thousands of New Yorkers all of these achievements pale when compared to the Fifth Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Infernal Machines | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Under the pressure of war the laboratory expanded its modernistic, fluorescent-lighted, and ventilated office and laboratories to every inch of space of that part of the basement below Sanders Theeater. In conjunction with this, on Oxford Street, opposite Malinkrodt, a peculiar two-story, pill-box-like structure arose. This block of concrete even today is a mystery to most of the people who walk by it, and they would be little enlightened if they knew that it was an anechoic chamber...

Author: By Shane E. Riorden, | Title: New Psychology Lab Stirs Aging Mem Hall Into Life | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

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