Word: clinic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan to hiss me when I declared for tax reduction and soldier bonus too. Said I: 'They hissed and booed, blatted and squealed like a barnyard filled with frightened cattle, geese and swine. It is a most interesting example of mass hysteria. I never more enjoyed a clinic in mental nervous diseases. . . Children who act one-tenth as bad are punished...
...utilitarian or aesthetic reasons) is no mystery, and is practiced by many competent surgeons in every large city, says Dr. Morris Fishbein, associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.* Dr. Fishbein's discussion is of interest in view of the recent establishment of the International Clinic of Plastic Surgery at St. Andrew's Hospital, London, where some marvelous work of this nature has been done. Facial surgery is attracting wide attention in America because of the activities of Dr. Henry J. Shireson, Chicago surgeon who reconstructed the nose of Fanny Brice, vaudeville actress...
...operations involve the bony structure and cartilages. Any part of the skeletal system may be repaired by grafts. Wax models are sometimes constructed for patterns. Long noses may be shortened, bony humps in them may be removed, depressions may be filled in in "saddle noses." At Major Gilles' clinic a woman with terrible burns on her face was equipped with a new jaw and eyebrows. A baby with a withered ear was given a good one. Hundreds of applicants, who want their faces reconstructed because of deformities which militate against employment or marriage, have had to be turned away...
...chief purpose of the International Clinic is to expose quackery and professional "beauty specialists" in this branch of surgery. No honest surgeon will guarantee a perfect result in this delicate work with living tissue, and sensational claims and hopes must be discounted...
...patients were almost equally divided between Protestants, Catholics and Hebrews. Police interference has been threatened, but the legality of the clinic is not likely to be seriously challenged. The various birth control propaganda groups, however, are seeking much more .than the mere establishment of a few clinics. The Voluntary Parenthood League (Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, Director) is making a concerted effort for the repeal of the sections of the Federal obscenity laws referring to contraceptive measures. In the short session of the last Congress a bill to accomplish this was introduced by Senator Cummins and Representative Kissel. Although many Congressmen...