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October/November 1984

14 years ago By admin

Volume

35

Issue

6

I have a question for you after reading the June/July issue. In the article “One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn,” you give the year 1904 for the first Finnish translation of Twain’s novel, but then on page 84 you also list 1927 for the first Finnish translation. Which year is the correct one?

The correct date is 1904.

Stories published from "October/November 1984"

The Ultimate Storm

Authored by: Bruce Catton

The Great Lakes hurricane of 1913 was a destructive freak. As far as lakers were concerned, it was …

What It Was Like To Be Sick In 1884

Authored by: Charles E. Rosenberg

American medicine in a crucial era was at once surprisingly similar and shockingly different from what we know today. You could get aspirin at the drugstore, and anesthesia during surgery. But you could also buy opium over the counter, and the surgery would be more likely to be performed in your kitchen than in a hospital.

The State Of Medical Care, 1984

Authored by: Oliver E. Allen

Americans have never been so healthy, thanks to advances in medical technology and research. Now we have to learn to deal with the staggering costs.

The Genealogy Of Mass General

Authored by: William Bennett

How a favorite local charity of Boston’s Brahmins—parochial and elite—grew into one of our great democratic medical institutions

The Prizewinners

Authored by: Robert B. Brown

America has won more Nobel Prizes in medicine than any other nation: it’s easy when you have the money, the technology, and people from every other nation

Memphis Fights the Yellow Fever

Authored by: Bernard A. Weisberger

A disease that no one understood laid waste a major American city. Five thousand died in two months, and Memphis was never the same again.

Military Medicine

Authored by: The Editors

How our wartime experience conquered a wide range of problems from hemorrhagic shock to yellow fever

Four More Years

Authored by: The Editors

Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.

A Passion In Miniature

Authored by: Carol Mcd. Wallace

Peter Marié, a bon vivant of the Gilded Age, asked hundreds of Society’s prettiest women to allow themselves to be painted for him alone

The Photo Birdman

Authored by: The Editors

While the Wright Brothers experimented at Kitty Hawk, a photographer named William Jennings believed he and his friends were making aviation history

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