Word: clinic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different plane is the serious attempt of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, an old downtown church in New York, to establish a scientific " body-and-soul " clinic. It is under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Scientific Healing, with Dr. Edward S. Cowles, neurologist, at its head, assisted by six physicians, and a corps of ministers, nurses and social workers. The medical men control all treatments. Where spiritual guidance is needed, clergymen are called to assist. Rev. William Norman Guthrie and Rev. Edward Cosbey, rectors of the church, are actively identified with the movement...
...melancholy, hypochondria. The treatment consists largely in recognized psychoanalytic methods of probing the patient's mental life, revealing the forgotten early experiences, hereditary or other causes which initiated the difficulty, and encouraging the sufferer to face and conquer his own troubles. Fifty patients a day are coming to the clinic, many of them intelligent and refined persons, and excellent results have already been secured...
...work. The Crocker Cancer Re-search Fund of Columbia University, under Dr. Francis Carter Wood, the cancer research conducted by Harvard, Cornell and New York University Medical Schools, all show promising results. A new cancer institute, comprising a 200-bed hospital on Blackwell's Island, and a large clinic, has just been established by the Departments of Public Welfare and Health of New York City...
Suit has been brought in France against a physician for injuries alleged to be due to X-rays penetrating from his clinic across a street and into a house. A committee of the Ministry of Hygiene, including Madame Curie, is investigating the possible physical effects of X-rays at a distance and through intervening matter...
...Nolan, of the Pennsylvania State Tuberculosis Clinic, Jeannette, Pa., has had apparently successful cures for pulmonary tuberculosis through inhaling fumes from a combination of carbon and calcium. The clue to this treatment he found in the low tuberculosis deathrate of Pittsburgh...