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Word: pyorrhea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brewery to a personal-loan company. This week he added to his current list, which includes Liberty magazine and R. B. Semler, Inc. (Kreml, "not greasy - makes the hair behave"), For-han's toothpaste, which once encouraged four out of five U. S. citizens to brood about pyorrhea. Now on the air over MBS five times a week with the news, the busy Mr. Heatter also serves as interlocutor for the CBS We, the People show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hotter Heatter | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Last week, in the American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Gruskin announced some notable results. Chlorophyll treatment had been used in 1,200 cases of infection, ranging from peritonitis to pyorrhea and the common cold. For lung and brain abscesses, abdominal infections like peritonitis, a solution of chlorophyll in salt water was applied directly to the infected surfaces, either in wet dressings or through soft rubber tubes. "Indolent" ulcers and "weeping" skin diseases were treated with a paste of chlorophyll and lanolin. Since chlorophyll is bland and soothing, said Dr. Gruskin, it has a great advantage over many standard antiseptics, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chlorophyll for Colds | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...Vitamin C (ascorbic acid): for scurvy, pyorrhea, rheumatic fever, wound healing, hemorrhage, cataract, insomnia, inflammation of bone marrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grass for Health | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...four out of five who have it," gingivitis, forerunner of pyorrhea, is no laughing matter. No toothpastes or mouthwashes will repair inflamed, bleeding gums, usually the result of illness, some vitamin deficiency or pregnancy. Fearsome is the name (desquamative gingivitis] for what happens when the outer layer of the gums begins to slough off. When bacteria invade the soft tissues, pyorrhea comes into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones for Gums | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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