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JULY FIFTEEN 1936 CENTS SHOULD YOU DRINK COFFEE AND TEA? SEXUAL WEAKNESS IN MEN . PAVLO'V - MAN AGAINST GREED by PAUL de KRUIF D,EATHFROM THE WATCH DIAL DOC HE~RSTIPRESCRIBES Also Vital Information on POISON IVY.STRAIGHTENING CROOKED TEETH EXERCISE • HAIRY, LEGS • SCIATICA C]Jurely Personal I N T HIS ISS U E BACK on the back cover you'll find all those books on health you've been asking , July, 1936 How Interested Are You? about. A good many of our doctors stayed up all night getting up a list which VOLUME 4- NUMBER 1 ON JUNE 4, because of the lack of seating space, 1,000 people they think is tops. They're not technical and have all the information you want. Workers' c<Tired Feeling" . 2 were turned away from a symposium on Marx and Freud \Vhat's more the price of the books in Editorial sponsored by HEALTH and HYGIENE. We feel that the at combination with HEALTH AND HYGIENE can meet most every lean pocketbook. Pavlov-Man Against Greed 3 tendance at this lecture wa.s indicative of the wide interest in the By Paul de Kruif MANY readers have been asking for an subject. In order to reach people outside New York City, those article on nervous breakdown. The psy Death from the Watch Dial 5 who could not be seated, and those who did attend but would like chiatrist who wrote those brilliant pieces Radium Poisoning on sex is covering the problem in the a printed record, we hope to publish the three speeches by Gran August issue. And unless you're an expert Exercises for Pep . 7 ville Hicks, Dr. Frankwood E. Williams, and Dr. Emanuel Glick in you won't want to miss it. Stretching and Bending for Health pamphlet form. The pamphlet should cost approximately twenty- THOUSANDS of people buy products be cause they have the approval of Willie Sexual Weakness in Men 9 . nve cents or less. To determine the exact demand, and to assist Hearst's Good Housekeeping Bureau. 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Telephone, ALgonquin 4·5107 EDITORIAL: PAVLOV By Workers' "Tired Feeling" MAN PAUL The Menace of ALTHOUGH ployers as a class suffer very little by such habits AGAINST Occupational Diseases the problem of of thought among their workers. de KRUIF industrial disease has With the enormous reserve of unemployed been a grave one for who can be drawn upon to replace the poisoned GREED many decades, it is only in the past year or two worker, employers have discovered that profits that public interest has been awakened to its can be increased by discharging the worker as Paul de Kmii, author of the stirri1tg bool? gravity. T~is interest has been aroused by the soon as evidence of poisoning is detected. For rrWhy Keep Them Alive". startling exposures in the working-class press of its detection, the finest medical tests are em OR years I've been getting ready to try to peasants you've ever seen pictures of, only he the miserable health conditions prevailing in ployed, tests worked out by scientific medicine write about Pavlov the liberator of man looked much older, and not so gaudy. At industry today. After the death and crippling which should be used for early detection and F kind and I'm still a long way from ready. this meeting in the Pasteur Institute his son, of hundreds of tunnel-diggers by silicosis at treatment of the poisoned worker, but instead What tempts me now to try this crude little who spoke English very well, was there, and if Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, these exposures are utilized to toss the worker onto the scrap sketch is the honest little piece about him that I'd had the brains or experience it would have were powerful enough to force a perfunctory heap or place him on' the blacklist warning recently appeared in HEALTH AND HYGIENE. been possible, through that interpreter, for me Congressional investigation. other employers not to employ him. Now that he is dead you can find plenty of to have found out that he was a man against The extent of industrial poisoning shows eulogies about him in scientific periodicals, tell greed. But in those days, cocky, ignorant, and itself very rarely through such dramatic tra-' Lives of Workers THE State and Federal ing how he discovered the nervous control of scientifically snooty as I then was, it would gedies as that of Gauley Bridge.