Word: beckett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shelved Hips. Dislocation of the hip is apt to recur when the muscles which hold the hip bone into the shallow hip socket have been weakened. Injury or infantile paralysis will do this. Dr. Marion Beckett Howorth of Manhattan invented a way of overcoming the slipping of the joint. He cuts through the flesh at the hip, lays bare the joint. Then he carefully breaks the part of the pelvic bone which forms the upper edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk...
...patronesses that have been selected are: Mrs. Eugene F. Du Bois of New York, Mrs. Ronald Mansfield Ferry, Mrs. James D. Henderson, and Mrs. Arthur Beckett Lamb...
Drugs were used in successful treatment of 46 insane persons by Drs. H. Beckett Lang and John A. Pater son of Willard State Hospital, Willard. N. Y. Theirs was the first practical application of a recent Cornell University discovery that insanity is due partly to the colloids of the brain becoming too watery or too coagulated-like thick syrup. For watery colloids sodium amytal was given, for syrupy colloids sodium rhodanate...
...Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel produced the mighty, gleaming Mace and laid it thereon. Right glad was Sir Colin, who failed to prevent a dastard Laborite from laying hands on the sacred Mace last year (TIME, July 28, 1930), that in the General Election this naughty varlet (Laborite John Beckett) lost his seat...
...Snatch!?moral Miss Edith Picton-Tubervill tried to grab a green bookful of Irish Sweepstake tickets away from jovial John Beckett in the House of Commons? but Jovial John held on tight...