Word: clinic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lorenz came in 1921 with his sons, Albert and Conrad, as assistants. His intentions were to reduce, in clinic, skeletal deformities by manipulative surgery similar to his operation in Chicago 19 years before on Lolita Armour. He was world-famed for his technique; would do much good to some cripples; would attract medical and surgical students to his amphitheatre, students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics...
...qualities of forthrightness and probity." Now since this is apparently a generalization, and one must be wary of generalizations, and since the aforementioned Roman gentleman was rather a keen observer of men, there is really no reason for placing too much faith in the words of the clinic conductor...
Long Distance Clinic. Heart in New York. Dr. James A. Greer, heart specialist, in Chicago. Dr. Samuel W. Lambert* and 1,500 physicians on the Steel Pier, Atlantic City. Six thousand miles of telephone and telegraph wires. The new method of telephotographing. The electrical stethoscope arid recording device for heart beats, perfected by Dr. H. B. Williams of Columbia University. Loud speakers. Stereopticon...
...these factors combined made the A. M. A. long-distance heart clinic. Dr. Greer, looking at the wavy line of heart-beat record sent from New York to Chicago in seven minutes, in the form of a telephoned photograph, diagnosed: "Systolic murmur." Dr. Lambert, hearing over long-distance telephone, agreed; and the whole conversation was heard by all the physicians, who could check up the diagnosis themselves through the chart flashed on the screen...
Epilepsy. A simple diet high in fat has been found to bring relief to the unfortunate child suffering from epilepsy. This hopeful news was brought to the convention by Dr. M. G. Peterson of the Mayo Clinic. His new treatment for fits and convulsions has been in use for intervals of from two and a half years to three months; and, of the 37 children treated, more than half have not been troubled with convulsions since they started on the diet...