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Illegal & Unethical. Its chief character is a German doctor, living illegally in France. He calls himself Ravic, but that is only one of his assumed names. Once a famous surgeon, Ravic cannot practice in France (he has no license). He lives by substituting unethically at surgical operations for two French...
Symptoms: "Pain in the shoulder region, usually going down the upper arm as far as the elbow, and frequently . . . pain or tingling or both in the palm and fingers." Treatment: sunlamp irradiation, anesthetic massage.
Even so, it is by no means without interest and a certain charm. Dr. Morton (Joel McCrea) is Sturges' least caricatured, most straightforwardly sympathetic hero to date. Some of the comedy, supplied chiefly and expertly by William Demarest (the picture is reduced largely to its comic episodes), is funny...
Freud then held the rank of "professor extraordinary" of neurology, but had turned his back on orthodox research channels ("his monograph on the coca-plant gave the first indication of its wide possibilities as an anesthetic") for pioneer psychological theorizing which rarely drew more than a dozen listeners to his...
Dr. William Arthur Morgan, head of the three-man mission, rolled up his sleeves and went to work. He had no facilities for making blood counts or fancy tests. But Dr. Morgan looked at the children's lava-toughened feet, figured that if their hearts could stand running up...