Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scrofula, in the middle ages, was called the King's Evil, because the touch of a royal finger, generally accompanied by the gift of gold coin bearing an angel's likeness, was supposed to cure that disease. But no textbook on pathology describes the ailment which Washingtonians sometimes refer to as ''the disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk...
...took Cuba from Spain, Japan took the Island of Formosa from China and kept it. Japanese citizens, however, do not like Formosa, and only enough Japanese live there to take out the oil, timber and camphor. Last week, far beneath the earth's surface, some internal ailment seeking relief exploded a volcano in Japan, shook Alaska, rumbled down the Chinese coast, crossed the shallow Formosan Strait and rocked Formosa with the Far East's worst earthquake since...
Last week, to marshal Medicine's best weapons against this troublesome ailment, the New York Academy of Medicine summoned the best available authorities to a special symposium. Dr. Emanuel Libman, 63, of Manhattan, famed among medical scholars for his discoveries in all kinds of heart and visceral diseases, explained the causes of coronary disease and angina pectoris. Dr. Henry Harlow Brooks, 64, of Manhattan, famed diagnostician, explained the best medical treatment. Dr. Harold Myers Marvin, 41, a rising Yale scholar, evaluated treatment by surgery...
Died. Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, 46, banker, sportsman, board chairman of Curtiss-Wright Corp., onetime board chairman of Madison Square Garden Corp.; following an operation for a liver ailment; in Manhattan. A partner in Hayden, Stone & Co., in 1929 he helped merge twelve aviation companies in Curtiss-WTright Corp...
...knew for certain that he was afflicted. Another student with a cold and a high temperature was moved from one ward to another, the change in temperature brought about an attack of pneumonia. Another case illustrates the careless diagnosis of the physicians, even though it was but a minor ailment. A student complaining of a sore finger was told by the doctor there was nothing wrong. Upon leaving the office he asked the nurse to look at his finger. She did so and removed a sliver of glass, but probably it was a very small piece. These cases...