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...from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest of their Rev. Dewey L. Dotson. Famed in the rural districts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia is George Hensley, a cracker parson who has been publicly snakebitten 200 times, is apparently immune to serpent venom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Serpents Taken Up | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...shouted and sang, Anderson reeled, was assisted from the platform and taken home. "I'll hold out faithful to the end," he gasped. Last week he summoned doctors. No toxicologists, they watched him die, declined to say whether it was from the delay or from the mixture of venom, potent even for Southern believers in pious immunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Serpents Taken Up | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...abnormally permeable to blood by simultaneously thinning the blood and capillary walls. Hemorrhage is due to wholesale escape of blood through the walls of those capillaries. According to one of the articles which Dr. Fishbein published last week, one treatment for thrombocytopenic purpura is the injection of water moccasin venom. The developers of this remedy, Manhattan's Drs. Samuel M. Peck, Nathan Rosenthal and Lowell A. Erf, advise a long series of hypodermic injections of dilute venom into the loose space between the skin and muscles. They admittedly do not understand the why or wherefore of their treatment. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poisons for Purpura | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

PROFESSOR SALVEMINI has written an economic study of Italian Fascism that is deeply convincing and sparkling with enthusiasm. From the first page he leaps onto the trail of Mussolini's "corporate state" and runs it down, point for point, with a vigor and venom that make his scholarly work one of the most fascinating treatments of modern Italy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/5/1936 | See Source »

...President's genial press conferences have kept him in favor with the rank and file of reporters, leaving such incorrigibles as Mark Sullivan and Frank Kent standing out like sailing ships at sea. But the spirit of fair play is lacking when particular people are singled out for official venom. If the Democrats get a vote of confidence next fall, they will continue in office with the deep distrust of the large body of people that have fallen victim to the blackjack blows of press-agent Michelson and his White House scribes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GET LAWRENCE | 4/23/1936 | See Source »

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