Archive for the 'Medicine' Category

Causes of the Common Cold 1925

DOCTORS STUDYING THE COMMON COLD
SCIENTIFIC interest in a disease is apt to vary directly with its rarity, remarks The Lancet (London), so that minor maladies, and in particular the common cold, do not receive that attention which their prevalence would appear to warrant. Of recent years the common cold, however, has been studied more assiduously [...]

Psychology Advancements in 1929

PSYCHOLOGY in 1929
by A. T. POFFENBERGER, PH.D.
Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
THE outstanding event in the psychological world during 1929 was the ninth International Congress of Psychology, held for the first time in America, at Yale University, September 1 to 7. Twenty-one foreign countries were represented by from one to twenty-two psychologists. There was a total [...]

Medical Achievements 1929

MEDICINE AND SURGERY 1929
by MORRIS FISHBEIN, M.D.
Editor, Journal American Medical Association
Popular Science Monthly - January 1930
THE following subjects have been of exceeding interest during the year just completed.
The concentrated extract of vitamin D made by irradiating ergosterol and now prescribed and sold as viosterol is of the greatest importance as a preventive and cure of [...]

Genetic Criminal Traits 1925

A MACHINE TO DESCRIBE OUR FUTURE CHILDREN
Machines have been designed to determine mechanically for parents what the inherited traits of their children will be. This latest innovation in the field of genetics is announced in the annual report of the Chicago municipal court’s psychopathic division, we are told by Owen D. Scott of the Consolidated [...]

Pros and Cons of Getting a Tan 1930

The Good and Evil of Getting Tanned
BRILLIANT sunlight may do harm as well as good, says Dr. W. A. Evans in the Chicago Tribune. It is like any other powerful agent, and the idea that exposure to it is healthful, always and to any extent, is erroneous. He writes:
“I have been giving this matter some [...]

Magnesium Salt 1930

The Salt of Old Age
A NECESSITY of life is the salt of sodium formed by its combination with chlorin. So well known is this, that when we talk of “salt,” we mean chlorid of sodium, altho there are dozens of other saltsâ€”some medicinal, some actively poisonous.
Now comes a French physician. Prof. Pierre Delbet of the [...]

Antiseptic Advice 1921

HOW GERMS GET USED TO ANTISEPTICS
VARY YOUR ANTISEPTICS; otherwise the disease germs will get used to them. The distinguished French physician and bacteriologist, Charles Richet, has recently laid before the French Academy of Sciences a note on researches made by him, together with Henry Cardot, on acquired characteristics and heredity in microbes. He experimented, among [...]

Brain Wave Study 1927

BRAIN WAVES
WAVES OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER, emanating from the brain, have been discovered more than once; but they do not stay discovered. Such waves would possess great importance as a possible physical basis for telepathy. The most celebrated were probably the “N-rays” reported from a Paris laboratory a quarter of a century ago. Tho [...]

Proposed Law Against Face-lifts 1927

LEGISLATION TO SAVE AMERICAN WOMEN from the effect of “frantic and artificial efforts to make themselves beautiful,” is advocated by Dr. Charles F. Pabst, chief dermatologist of Greenpoint Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. In an interview published in the Brooklyn Eagle he proposes drastic methods to stop “face-lifting” and other such processes, pointing out that in [...]

Golf Psychology 1927

Psychology is spreading like a weed. It has even invaded the golf courses, we are told by The British Medical Journal (London). The latest example is a small volume on mental handicaps in golf, by Dr. T. B. Hyslop, who is not only an enthusiastic golfer, but also an entertaining writer. Says The Journal:
Before we [...]