She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Doctor & Medicine

  • Women Medics Not Eligible

    Source: “Women Medics Not Eligible.” The Spokesman-Review, 14 Nov. 1942, p. 15. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review/134504416/

  • Medicine: Not So Long Ago

    Manhattan doctors have seldom had a more instructive account of modern progress in surgery than they got recently in the frank, gay, gossipy reminiscences of one famed surgeon. They got it from dapper, renowned little Dr. John Frederic Erdmann, 78 (who still operates and teaches), who just for fun of it got up at Post-Graduate…

  • Medicine: Army Medicine 1775-1943

    “He who would become a surgeon should join the army and follow it,” said Hippocrates. In Victories of Army Medicine (Lippincott; $3), published last week, Colonel Edgar Erskine Hume shows that surgery has been only one great branch of U.S. Army healing. His book is the first general history of U.S. Army Medicine. Catalogue of…

  • Medicine: Health in the Army

    White-haired, hale & healthy Major General Norman T. Kirk, since June head of the Army’s huge (90,000 officers, 450,000 enlisted men) Medical Corps, last fortnight told Manhattan newspapermen that the U.S. Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war. Some of his specific points on Medical Corps problems, solved…

  • Wartime Stresses and Neuropsychiatry

    Source: Farrell, Malcolm J., and Kathleen H. Atto. “Wartime stresses and neuropsychiatry.” The American Journal of Nursing, vol. 43, no. 7, July 1943, p. 638.

  • This is Ann She’s Dying to Meet You

    Source: “This Is Ann [Malaria Brochure].” War Department, Aug. 1943.

  • What Nurses Do

    Source: “What Nurses Do.” The American Journal of Nursing, Aug. 1943, pp. 724”“725. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3456280?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • Medicine: Synthetic Penicillin?

    If sleuthing doctors are right, chemists may soon know how to make penicillin synthetically””and penicillin is desperately scarce. This speculation popped out of a report to the American Chemical Society, in which Manhattan’s Drs. Gustav J. Martin and C. Virginia Fisher observed that penicillin seems to act much like the acridine group of drugs which…

  • Medicine: Sulfachievements

    ””A cheering fact about meningococcus meningitis was reported from the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego. Of 50 men ingitis patients treated with sulfa drugs (TIME, Nov. 30), 48 recovered. The two who died did so almost as soon as they reached the hospital, might have lived if they had been treated soon enough. The…