Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the risks are generally considered too great, most surgeons shy away from operating on old people. So when Manhattan-born, European-trained (University of Budapest) Dr. John Toma was appointed attending surgeon for the 500 residents of two California homes for old folks, he knew that his job would not be an easy...
Most chamber groups never try such a varied program, or if they do, they play everything in one style. The Budapest String Quartet showed its true greatness by playing each of these pieces exactly as it should be played...
CONGRATULATIONS . . . JUDGE MEDINA'S CONDUCT OF THE RECENT TRIAL, IN WHICH FORCES WERE PLAINLY AT WORK TO CRAMP AND PARALYZE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, WAS AN ENNOBLING INSPIRATION TO ALL FREE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. IN MARKED CONTRAST WAS THE TRIAL OF JOSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY IN BUDAPEST. IT TOOK THE KREMLIN THREE DAYS TO IMPOSE GUILT ON THIS INNOCENT MAN, AS AGAINST THE 169 DAYS ALLOWED IN JUDGE MEDINA'S COURT TO OVERTHROW THE LEGAL PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND IMPOSE GUILT ON GUILTY MEN. JUDGE MEDINA'S . . . COURT GENERALSHIP ... RECALLS TO MIND JUSTICE CARDOZO'S WORDS...
...August 1865, a bald, middle-aged man lunged through the streets of Budapest thrusting circulars into the hands of startled pedestrians. "Young men and women! You are in mortal danger!" they read. "The peril of childbed fever menaces your life! Beware of doctors, for they will kill you! Remember! When you enter labor unless everything that touches you is washed with soap and water and then chlorine solution, you will die and your child with you! . . . Your friend, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis...
Wounded Modesty. A Budapest grocer's son, hearty, robust Semmelweis went to Vienna in 1836 to study law but soon transferred to medicine. Six years later, as a provisional assistant in the Vienna Lying-in Hospital, he witnessed the horrors that were to haunt his life and give it purpose. One out of every three women who entered the First Division ward died of childbed fever; most victims' babies died too. In other parts of the world the story was even grimmer. At Jena over a four-year period, the death toll among infection victims was 100%. Among...