She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Doctor & Medicine

  • Visiting Surgeon Gets Plaque for Leadership

    Source: “Visiting Surgeon Gets Plaque for Leadership.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1 Jan. 1942, p. 12. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/125648527/

  • Pearl Harbor Was Scene of Sweeping Victory for Drugs

    Source: “Pearl Harbor Was Scene of Sweeping Victory for Drugs.” The Science News-Letter, 24 Jan. 1942, p. 53. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25171548?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • Death Rides aCootie

    During World War I the cootie was a joke to many people who had never been bitten by one. Even itching soldiers stoically made a joke out of it. On the Western Front, thanks to frequent delousing and other precautions, the cootie seldom brought anything worse than a comparatively mild infliction called trench fever. But…

  • Down To Cases With Case

    Source: Case, Howard D. “Down To Cases With Case.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 16 Feb. 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/129824311/

  • Medicine: Doctor Shortage

    Almost half of the nation’s 180,000 doctors had to register in the draft this week, and many a civilian worried about being left doctorless. In large cities, at least, he need not worry. Only half the registered doctors are expected to pass their physical tests or be free of dependents; besides, the Army & Navy,…

  • All Residents Of City Must Be Immunized

    Source: “All Residents Of City Must Be Immunized.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 1 Mar. 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/117110446/

  • Medicine: Tropical Diseases

    Malaria, dysentery, yellow fever head the list of tropical diseases to be fought in World War II by the U.S. Medical Corps. Of the three, malaria, against which there is no true prophylactic, is Medical Enemy No. 1. How to protect U.S. soldiers from the rats, lice, mosquitoes, fleas and flies that carry malaria, dysentery,…

  • Medicine: Sweet Salt

    Sweet-toothed citizens, queuing up for the first ration cards the U.S. has seen, heard two hard facts repeated by doctors, dentists, dietitians: 1) we have been eating too much sugar anyway, 2) even if the U.S. sugar ration dropped to zero, we would probably be healthier than we are now. Reasons: *Saccharine, widely used as…

  • Sol Practices For His ‘Shots’

    Source: “Sol Practices For His ”˜Shots.”™” The Honolulu Advertiser, 22 Mar. 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/129822899/