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...translators of the Revised Standard Version have benefited by a whole modern cycle in Biblical scholarship. In the last 70 years, scholars and archaeologists have dug out of the sands of Egypt and the Holy Land a score of manuscripts, most of them far earlier than anything the17th century translators of the Bible knew about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Bibles | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

French Fashion. The17th Century was the Golden Age of the enema, or clyster as it was then called. The crude instruments of yesteryear-tubes of bone or wood attached to animal bladders or silk bags-were replaced by a formidable piston-&-cylinder device. An apothecary or doctor's assistant, marching through the streets with a clyster tube on his shoulder (see cut), became a common sight, as a mania for enemas swept France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Clyster Craze | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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