Word: clinic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high hope for the majority of them. But the surgery available in most parts of the country is not good enough: although half the patients now die, there are "islands" in this sea of mortality where only one patient out of 20 dies. Among such islands: the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota Hospital and Manhattan's Memorial Hospital...
Also under consideration is an instructive film for the Social Relations Department's new psychology clinic, he said...
...modern theory of a "colon corrective" is expounded by the Mayo Clinic's Dr. J. Arnold Bargen in the current Gastroenterology. Dr. Bargen recommends methylcellulose, which will correct either constipation or diarrhea. It can also do much, he says, to repair the harm done by laxative chemicals. Dr. Bargen concedes that "constipation is probably the most common of all physical complaints." In modern smooth diets, often deficient in fruits and vegetables, most food is absorbed in the small intestine and not enough bulk reaches the colon to cause automatic muscle contraction (peristalsis). The thing to do, says Dr. Bargen...
...Brandeis blueprint also calls for a streamlining of its old parklike campus overlooking the Charles River. The dissecting room of the Middlesex medical school has been made over into a cafeteria, a stable into a library and an animal hospital into a speech clinic. Last week, while it was finishing its new $500,000 science building, Brandeis was also making plans for a new $250,000 library and a $200,000 dormitory...
...result, concluded Dr. Leonard W. Parkhurst, the clinic's medical director, many businessmen "need the advice of psychiatrists to convince them that they must ... be boss of their jobs, not slaves to those jobs." In one group of 63 tested at the clinic, 80% needed medical, surgical or psychiatric treatment. The clinic's time-honored prescription: take it easier...