Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, last week, the American Birth Control League met to summarize accomplishments of 1927, to prophesy progress. Dr. James F. Cooper, medical adviser of the League reported that interest in contraception was waxing among doctors. Specifically, he told of the work of the birth control clinic in Manhattan, where 4,500 women last year were advised on birth control. Of these, 1,991 were new patients...
...Manhattan the American Birth Control League conducts a clinic to instruct poor mothers "for health reasons."* New York State laws permit that. Dr. James F. Cooper is medical director of the clinic. He found that uninstructed, desperate mothers had been enduring abortions. Ten abortions for a woman was a common number. One woman admit ted 40. In England the Malthusian League, conducts a similar clinic for poor women. Other countries have them. Those better off, as in the U. S., themselves must collect information...
...Carl H. von Noorden of Germany had stated that he had been mistaken in glukhorment, his presumptuous substitute for insulin. Last summer he had announced from his famed metabolic clinic at Frank-furt-am-Main that the drug (which he prepared from pancreases) had benefited diabetics and had not sickened them as did insulin*(TIME...
Through the wards of the General Hospital at Vienna, a tall, grey doctor proceeds. His shoulders are stooped from age and work. Behind him follow 20 to 30 other doctors. They have come from all countries to attend his clinic. Many are from the U. S., taking postgraduate work, for, although the U. S. has better laboratories than any abroad, Vienna maintains its prestige for clinical research...
...enable such voiceless people to speak, Dr. Mackenty, at the Vanderbilt Clinic, Manhattan, early in 1925 displayed a device made for him by Dr. Harvey Fletcher and Clarence E. Lane of the Western Electric-American Telephone & Telegraph laboratories. The apparatus consists of a small cylinder about the size of a man's pipe bowl. From the bottom reaches a flexible rubber tube which at will is attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber...