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One of the slave hormones whose flow can be speeded by ACTH is cortisone, formerly known as Compound E (TIME, June 13). Like its master, cortisone almost always relieves the symptoms of crippling rheumatoid arthritis in a few injections, but, again like its master, it must be used continuously or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope Deferred | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

The human animal prides himself on using his head, but he pays a terrible penalty in headaches. Headaches are one of man's commonest and most persistent ailments. One of the worst forms-migraine -is a sick headache that recurs at regular intervals. Symptoms may include dark spots before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Oh, My Aching Head | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

This particular kind of problem recurs every year for many groups and could profitably undergo study by a Student Council committee. Such a committee might well expedite the process of securing dependable student help and of guaranteeing extra-curricular maintenance service at a price harried student treasurers can consider. In...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men at Work | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

The most portentous threat lies in the fact that the United States now stands at the wrong phase of two distinct influenza cycles. An influenza pandemic, which recurs every twenty to thirty years, has not been visited upon the world since 1918, when it killed twenty-one million people of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Impending Pandemic | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

The Politics of Oil. But the niceties of palace protocol were surface symptoms. Beneath them stirred the tides of history. As a well-read Iranian, the Shah doubtless recalled the words of the Arabian Poet Abul Ala al Ma'arri: "History is a poem in which the words change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Rhythm Recurs | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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