A GOOD, SAFE TAN
ANNALS OF MEDICINE about a 20-year-old girl called Penny Thompson (pseud.) who contracted aplastic anemia from no known cause. The usual treatment involves blood transfusions…
All Work
Squire
Talk story about a visit to Lynchburg, Tennessee, home of Jack Daniel Distillery. Tolley, a great-grandniece of Jack Daniel, operates Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House…
Sharecroppers
Talk story about Promised Land Farm, a nonprofit farming project based on the idea of Community Supported Agriculture, near the writer's place on eastern Long…
Comment, Pt. II
Writer is a frequenter of old cemeteries enjoying their "marble stories". The other weekend when he was down in Southampton, he paid a visit to…
THE POKER GAME
ANNALS OF MEDICINE about Q fever, which has some of the same symptoms as pneumonia. Q fever is not transmitted from man to man. It…
Open Road
Talk story about a trip by automobile from eastern Long Island to the Deepest South, Mobile, Alabama. There is very little open road--very little countryside--in…
THE FOULEST AND NASTIEST CREATURES THAT BE
ANNALS OF MEDICINE about the tick-borne disease called Lyme disease. It is rarely fatal, but unless promptly diagnosed & treated its victims may recover from…
A LEAN CUISINE
ANNALS OF MEDICINE about an outbreak of thyroid disease in which patients had an excessive supply of thyroid hormones. It is called thyrotoxicosis. The usual…
Ticket
Talk story about a friend who lives in the country and was stopped by police for speeding; he was on the main highway which is…
1988_02_29_080_TNY_CARDS_000350218
DEPT. OF AMPLIFICATION on ANNALS OF MEDICINE which ran Jan. 4, 1988 & told of a case of poisoning from certain pesticides. Among the many…
THE FUMIGATION CHAMBER
ANNALS OF MEDICINE about a case of organophosphate poisoning resulting from exposure to insecticide. The patient was Betty Page (pseud.). She and her husband, Lewis,…
Comment
A friend writes: I was down in Washington the other day & I was witness to a commonplace of our times. A scream of sirens.…