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Norfolkians might have felt better if they had recalled one seafaring Thomas Dover, who (circa 1730) combined to an unusual degree the callings of doctor and pirate. Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever. He prescribed a powder with opium (to make symptoms subside) and ipecac (to make a patient sweat and give him "a sense of progress...
Since Captain Dover's time, sailors have used "cat fever" for any set of achy symptoms that a Navy doctor cannot readily diagnose. (Some Navy doctors still prescribe Dover's powder.) Last week, cat fever turned...
...Huon line and 200 miles up the coast from Finschhaven, took a night shelling from U.S. warships. Gasmata, a New Britain stronghold, got a similar dose of gunfire. In both actions, U.S. vessels penetrated waters that had been Jap preserves since early 1942, had seldom smelled the powder of the U.S. Navy...
...Miss Forbes married Paul Richmond, president of the R. L. Watkins Co. (Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder). Seven months later, Mr. Richmond died and left her his control of the company...
...Amazing is the chemists' progress against bugs. Every soldier now carries a tin of powder (pyrethrum plus a synthetic insecticide called IN-930) with which he can deflea himself in a jiffy, a tiny vial of fumigator (methyl bromide) with which he can quickly delouse his clothes in a sealed paper...