Word: clinic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work among the poor in the slum areas of Battersea and Lambeth that undoubtedly inspired his first serious work, Liza of Lambeth. To the clinic at St. Thomas's where he studied, the poor of the district came seeking medical aid. Maugham found their souls more interesting than their bodily ills. He drew upon them for the characters of Liza, of Liza's mother, of Jim and Tom. The first book contained only a shadow of the future bitterness of Maugham's work. In Mrs. Craddock his sense of the mixture of tragedy and comedy is almost...
Adolf Lorenz, the Austrian orthopedic surgeon who in his various sojourns in America has incurred both blessings and curses in quantity, will return to this country in two weeks, and will set up his first clinic at the Perryburg Hospital, Buffalo, according to announcement by Mayor Schwab, of that city. Fifteen thousand applications for operations have been made, and it is claimed that Dr. Lorenz will treat 100 persons a day- an absurdly high number to receive adequate attention...
...Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917), Swiss, director of surgical clinic, University of Berne, expert in surgery of thyroid and other ductless glands and of exophthalmic goiter...
...cure for tuberculous and undernourished children is becoming a recognized part of modern treatment for these conditions. It has been brought to its highest perfection by Dr. August Rollier and his colleague, Dr. Rosselet, in their clinic at Leysin, on one of the Alps near Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Here in the last 20 years more than 2,000 cases of surgical (bone and joint) tuberculosis have been treated, and more than 80% discharged as cured. The children are gradually exposed to the sun's rays until the whole body can be bared. In Winter the whole day is spent...
...similar clinic has been opened recently at the Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, Wash., Dr. Chauncey J. Hawkins, minister. The clinic does not follow the methods of Coué, or the Emmanuel Movement, though it recognizes and utilizes the mental elements in healing. The treatment is entirely in the hands of responsible physicians and psychologists, without interference by the clergy...