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Most old people die of vascular (blood vessel) diseases. Dr. Gumpert asserts that these and other diseases of age can be prevented or mitigated by modern geriatrics (the science of diseases of the aged). He also places great hope in Russian Biochemist Alexander Bogomoletz' ACS serum (TIME, Jan. 17), which may lengthen life by delaying the aging of connective tissue. But man's best hope of living longer, says Dr. Gumpert, is in his mental attitude toward death. The present system of life-insurance rates, retirement, pensions, etc., in Gumpert's view, "makes life an embarrassing preparation...
Also Weston's course on non-vascular plants, 1a, is universally praised and very necessary for generals. 1b is not recommended except for those who plan to do a lot of work in botany. Romer's 2a, which used to be a full course, has been cut in half, with no corresponding reduction of subject matter. It is a hard but necessary course, and not to take it would be scholastic suicide. 2b on invertebrates by Bigelow and Welsh is more elastic, not so essential, and can be covered by the reading
Died, May Yohe Hope Strong Smuts, 69, Victorian actress who knew most of the rich dandies of two continents; of arterial sclerotic heart disease and chronic vascular nephritis; in Boston, Mass. In 1894, tempestuous May Yohe, then London star of Little Christopher Columbus, married Lord Francis Hope, who gave her the famed diamond now owned by Evalyn Walsh MacLean. She wore it only twice in eight years before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted...
...California Court, he said, but had great hopes for a final victory before the U. S. Supreme Court. Twenty pounds heavier than when he left San Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears. "I'll be all right," wept Tom Mooney. "It's the shock, coming back here?back to San Francisco where it all happened...
...purposes of this act the advertisement of a drug representing it to have any therapeutic effect in the treatment of Bright's disease, cancer, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, venereal diseases, heart and vascular diseases, shall be deemed to be false; except that no advertisement shall be deemed to be false if it is disseminated only to members of the medical and pharmaceutical professions or appears only in the scientific periodicals of these professions...