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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…
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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…
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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…
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NEWSREEL: Time Magazine – US At War: To the Nearest of Kin
The families of the 1,026 men killed at Tarawa knew what the statistics meant. To most of the U.S., the second figure was still just a figure: 2,557 wounded. But Tarawa’s wounded ”” like all the wounded from World War II ”” were coming home. Many would come home with missing arms, legs, eyes, faces.…
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New Sulfa Drug To Speed Relief From Colds
Source: Science Service. “New Sulfa Drug To Speed Relief From Colds.” The Gazette and Daily, 31 Dec. 1943, p. 25. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-and-daily/138050836/
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NEWSREEL: Time Magazine – MEDICINE: New Limbs for Old
Newly arrived from Britain is a cheerful film, Back to Normal, showing young Britons merrily dancing and playing tennis and ping-pong, a carpenter at work with his tools, a child playing on a slide, a matron sedately pedaling a bicycle to market. What makes these ordinary goings-on extraordinary is the fact that all the actors…
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NEWSREEL: Time Magazine – MEDICINE: Healthier Army
Within three months the 100,000 U.S. servicemen now hospitalized in Europe will have been brought home and some 90 Army general hospitals (out of 99) in Britain will be closed. As the main body of the Army Medical Corps moved toward the new main fighting front, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Major…
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Vaccine Innovation: Lessons from World War II
Source: Hoyt, Kendall. “Vaccine innovation: Lessons from World War II.” Journal of Public Health Policy, vol. 27, no. 1, 2006, pp. 38”“57, https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200064.