Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter then recounted how the patients of Herbert Barker, famed "bone setter," "suffered terrible agony under his treatment" until a practitioner, Dr. Axham, though realizing that he would incur the anger of the General Medical Council thought it his duty to offer his services as an anesthetist. . . . The Council found him guilty of 'infamous professional conduct' and deprived him of the right to practice medicine...
...Herbert Barker, for the cures he effected among War wounded soldiers, received the honor of knighthood and obtained practical, if irregular, recognition of his skill while Dr. Axham, now a very old man, being deprived of his means of livelihood, has been in considerable financial straits...
...interests and grievances as a citizen. My wife suffered from laming traumatic dislocation for eight years. Thanks to the obsolete training maintained by the General Medical Council, registered surgeons were unable to correct it. They did not pretend to. Their final verdict was, 'You must go to Barker.' But the General Medican Council said, 'If you go to that blackleg you shall howl for it, as we will ruin any man who dares administer an anesthetic.' And in fact the operation, which was completely successful, was performed without anesthetic, though I hasten to add that this...
...Watters '26, who has not been in the running this season, will be included in the University line-up this afternoon. Two new men have been included, W. V. King '28 and H. R. Kobes '26, who will take the places left by L. B. R. Barker '26 and J. L. Novogrod '27. Watter's arrival forced A. C. Harper '26 from the list...
...Crimson team will probably race with the following men: E. C. Haggerty '27, L. B. R. Barker '26, Edward Gordon '27, R. G. Luttman '28, L. J. Novogrod '27, Robert Feinberg '28, C. A. Harper...