Word: bevans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeed President Charles Horace Mayo, the American Surgical Association, meeting in Yale's Sterling Hall of Medicine, last week elected Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, millionaire. Thus did the surgeons rebuke the American Medical Association for flaying Surgeon Bevan, 1917-18 A. M. A. president. Dr. Bevan had incurred A. M. A. wrath by telling U. S. Senators that 90% of whiskey prescriptions are sold illicitly (TIME...
...Surgeon Bevan's professional reputation is soundly founded. He originated the "hockey-stick" incision to expose the gall-bladder for operation without cutting through important nerves. He was one of the first to propose lengthening the period of premedical and medical education from three years to seven, considers his help in bringing about the longer course one of his "greatest accomplishments." He has been professional lecturer on surgery at the University of Chicago since 1901, professor and head of the surgical department of Rush Medical College since...
...Surgeon Bevan rushed Theodore Roosevelt after being shot by a Milwaukee maniac (1912). The bullet, Dr. Bevan recalled last week, went through 100 pages of manuscript and an eyeglass case before entering Roosevelt's body. When Roosevelt died some seven years later the bullet was still in his body, so far as Dr. Bevan knows...
Like Roosevelt, Dr. Bevan wears pincenez which (unlike Roosevelt) he removes when he starts to talk. He is tall and plump, has a way of leaning toward a listener as though he were about to impart a great confidence...
...William Frederick Lorenz, University of Wisconsin professor of psychiatry who attended the Senate hearing with Dr. Bevan resented "any inference that dominantly the profession is engaged in bartending." Querulous members of the Chicago Medical Society, to which Dr. Bevan belongs, cried for his condemnation, if not ousting...