She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Doctor & Medicine

  • Laulau’s Usually Just Half-Shot

    Source: “Laulau”™s Usually Just Half-Shot.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 25 Mar. 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/129823143/

  • Sol Takes His Needle Manfully

    Source: “Sol Takes His Needle Manfully.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 29 Mar. 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/129822249/

  • Penicillin Is High As Germ Killer

    Source: “Penicillin Is High As Germ Killer.” The Morning Post, 4 June 1942, p. 16. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-post/137921396/

  • Medicine: Pioneers in Poison

    Two of the world’s greatest experts on poisons were given honorary degrees in medicine last week at Connecticut State Medical Society’s sesquicentennial celebration. The toxicologists: Dr. Alice Hamilton, 73, industrial expert and first woman professor at Harvard; Physiologist Yandell Henderson, 69, of Yale, inventor of the modern gas mask. For 30 years Alice Hamilton has…

  • Jaundice Peak Passed By Army

    Source: UP. “Jaundice Peak Passed By Army.” Battle Creek Enquirer, 24 July 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/battle-creek-enquirer/137135785/

  • Mr. and Mrs. Hospital Trustee – You Have a Big Job

    Source: Geister, Janet M. “Mr. and Mrs. Hospital Trustee – You Have a Big Job.” The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, Sept. 1942, pp. 175”“178.

  • They Can’t Go To Him – He Goes To Them

    Source: “They Can”™t Go To Him – He Goes To Them.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 26 Sept. 1942, p. 3. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/125646617/

  • “Ode to the Medics” 11.04.1942

    by Cpl John Readey, Cp. Stoneman, Calif., Yank-The Army Weekly, 1942 They give me shots for tetanus;For typhoid, I get three!The yellow fever is an excuseFor one more hole in me.”“They stick the needle in me dry;They stick it in me wet.They punch me full of holes, it seems,At every chance they get.”“Typhus, measles, housemaid”™s…

  • Medicine: Rationed Health

    A disjointed procurement policy . . . has resulted in hoarding and freezing unused doctors in the American armed forces. . . . This uneven procurement threatens doctor famines in vast rural areas with the probability of a general epidemic similar to the influenza conditions of 1918. With these ominous words Senator Claude Pepper’s Subcommittee…