Archive for the 'Medicine' Category

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 [...]

Benefits of Laughter 1927

GOOD EFFECTS PRODUCED BY LAUGHTER and cataloged in an article by Dr. Welsh in Medical Life are thus quoted in the “General Topics” section of American Medicine (New York). We read:
It is one of the most natural things in the world. Yet how many physicians are there who insist that their patients must laugh heartily [...]

Antiseptic Drug 1925

A DRUG WITH X-RAY QUALITIES
IN AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED to Le Matin (Paris), Dr. Pierre Louis Rehm tells of a communication made to the Academy of Science in which two French collaborators, one of them director of the Bureau of Hygiene at Reims, announce the discovery that a familiar antiseptic, hypochlorite of sodium, may exercise its [...]

Life expectancy increase in 1921

An article from “The Literary Digest” of 1921 has been added to the web-site.
THE SAVING OF LIFE, especially that of children, is beginning to show in the statistical tables. Great Britain’s population has increased 13 million in the past fifty years, yet the annual deaths are less by 50,000 than in 1871. The average life [...]