Word: clinic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when trying to cultivate a close relation, to cut interviews short. For instruction, the students are met singly or in small groups of those whose reading is much the same. The consultation is kept small enough to be of the nature of a private consultation, and not of a clinic, a method quite different from that of the ordinary classroom...
...German surgeons who were in congress at Berlin last week, Dr. Carl H. von Noorden sent his report from his clinic at Frankfurt-am-Main. He wrote that he had succeeded in making an extract of animal pancreases. This extract he had reduced to powder then compressed into tablets. Patients whom insulin sickened could swallow his tablets. He called this extract "horment...
...cancer research, at least, there will be no dearth of facilities and money this year. The American Society for the Control of Cancer practically has its million dollars to spend on public education to prevent cancer. Various other societies haVe their funds. Hospitals have their clinics, supported usually by special endowments. In Manhattan the New York Cancer Institute, financed by the city, cares for impoverished cancer patients and studies the infinite variety of the disease. Last week the New York Cancer Association, headed by Sanders A. Wertheim, occasionally flamboyant coal dealer, announced that, to cooperate still further with the city...
While in the monasteries the doctors studied the effects of diet on segregated men, at Sing Sing (New York state prison, Ossining) where men live under similarly "controlled" conditions, Dr. Amos T. Baker has set up a psychiatric clinic to learn the cause of imprisonment. Each day he will unravel the characters of three men to learn 1) their intelligence. 2) vocational possibilities, 3) future outlook on society. Said Warden Lewis E. Lawes of the project: "Some of the men we have here are pretty smart birds, and I expect some occasionally to put one over on the doctor...
...years his writings on juvenile sociologv have been chiefly confined to specific discussion of cases arising in his social clinic, with strong but never revolutionary suggestions to society at large. But last week, when the February Red Book reached newsstands, Judge Lindsey laid before the country his creed. First popular U. S. sociologist of national reputation to do so, Judge Lindsey came out flat-footed for 1) trial or "companionate" marriage; 2) birth control...