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Daiichi Seiyaku (meaning No. 1 drug company) ran half-page ads showing men and women with agonized faces, clutching swollen heads and moaning for Atraxin. Daiichi and competitors put up billboards at Tokyo's busiest intersections, where stalled motorists and scared-running pedestrians were urged to help themselves to "cope" by taking a pill. There was even a suggestion (eventually dropped) that similar ads be placed at railroad crossings, bridges and volcano craters, the meccas of the suicide-minded. (Several attempts to commit suicide with overdoses of tranquilizers have failed.) Tranki pills have proved especially popular with students cramming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Honorable Tranki | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...worker, had enlarged and infected adenoids that threatened to block a Eustachian tube. Such blockage could, in turn, cause infection of the middle ear. A fortnight ago Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) went to Utrecht's City and Academic Hospital, 25 miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx. After eight minutes, he took the gadget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radioactive! | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Perhaps because the disturbed tissues were swollen, the duct at first carried no saliva. But when Dougherty heard and smelled the lunch wagon, the flow was copious. Says Dougherty, a former railroad freight handler who has been unable to work for five years: "My eye watered so much I had to put a towel on my lap. But when the watering stopped, I could see the food." From having been able to distinguish only light from dark, Dougherty developed 20/200 vision-enough for him to travel alone to the hospital last week for a checkup. His vision is expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Drooling Eye | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...Ilsa had never raced the 880 before she set the record. In fact, for a while it had seemed that she would never become a first-rate swimmer. Dogged by colds and flu, she tried hard but won no state titles in 1956. Last year she was troubled by swollen knees, spent twelve weeks with both legs encased in splints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Konrads Kids | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...past. This country has been fortunate; its youth has grown strong and vigorous under every conceivable circumstance. But we have consistently tended to confuse luck with talent, and have been satisfied to rest on our big oars, failing to see that the sea could get rougher. The nation, swollen with pride of accomplishment, has been content to play the strapping fair-haired boy, stepping in to protect weaklings from bullies. We have sat in self-righteous judgement on the world's felons, and with our Big Stick have meted out punishment where it was necessary...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: Coming of Age | 11/14/1957 | See Source »

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