Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spears, 62, highflying quack, head (since 1943) of Denver's glassy Spears Chiropractic Sanitarium; of a heart attack; in Denver. A lifelong anomaly in the medical profession, Dr. Spears was charged with manslaughter after a young (31) patient died six weeks after he opened his clinic, was acquitted, sued state health officials for $300,000, lost the case. He later sought damages for libel suits totaling some $36 million, never collected a nickel...
...Germany, she inherited a sense of compassion and a strong personal ethic. From her father, a Socialist law student turned master stonemason, came a reverence for craftsmanship and a social conscience. In her married life, she approved the decision of her doctor husband to devote his life to a clinic in Berlin's Northeast working-class section...
Bypassing the Heart. A 17-month-old boy at the Cleveland Clinic was the first human subject of the heart-stopping technique. Born with an opening in the septum (wall) between the right and left ventricles, his heart was unable to pump blood efficiently through his body because much of the blood pumped by the left ventricle leaked back through the hole into the right ventricle. The condition was getting worse...
...chest and inserted tubes in the two great veins carrying used blood to the heart. When they clamped off these veins, they forced the blood out through the tubes, which fed it to a combined pump and oxygenator, the heart-lung machine developed by Cleveland Clinic's Willem Johan Kolff (TIME, Oct. 31). From the machine the blood was fed back into the body through an artery in the chest, bypassing the heart...
...their food, only one had unexplained high-blood pressure; of 630 who added salt sometimes after tasting food, 43 had the disease; among 581 who always added salt without bothering to taste, 61 had it. ¶ Studies at the University of Michigan's Child Health Conference (Well-Baby Clinic) answered a bedeviling question: Is the Salk polio vaccine as effective among infants and pre-school children as among the first-and second-graders on whom it was first tried? Said the researchers, after testing 133 infants and 116 kindergartners on various inoculation schedules: yes. ¶ One of the commonest...