Word: catgut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...standardized types for each item. Between 70% and 91% of the hospitals who answered the questionnaire on the topic sent out by Margaret Rogers, St. Luke's Hospital, St. Paul, Minn., agreed to adopt standards. Dr. W. P. Morrill, Columbia Hospital, Washington, complained of the increasing price of catgut (for operations), due, he said, "to the control of the raw material by packers and an apparent intent on their part to attempt to control the manufacture of this product." Cost of Cure. The most impor tant problem facing hospital administration is the caring for people of moderate means...
...Southampton. The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea is no friend to tennis players. It sends its fogs to swell catgut strings so that a dry day will snap them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year...