Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ailing British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, 55, still stretcher-born after two April operations, left his London clinic to recuperate at Prime Minister Churchill's country home. Convalescence is expected to last through the summer...
...various times served on the staffs of the Peter Bent Brigham, Rockefeller, and Massachusetts General Hospitals, and the Mayo Clinic and Evans Memorial. Dr. Fitz had also been a trustee of Wellesley College, the Perkins Institute for the Blind,, and the Brookline Public Library...
Such a work load would be more than enough for most sculptors. But Mestrovic also has another and even bigger project. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, has asked him to decorate the fagade of its new diagnostic building, and Mestrovic has answered with a typically herculean work. To be cast in gleaming bronze, it is a straight-backed figure of a young man straining to reach the sky-28 feet from tiptoe to fingertip. Mestrovic calls the statue Man and Freedom, and into its graceful, classical pose he has poured the philosophy that guides him through his work. Says...
...From the Mayo Clinic came a comprehensive report of elaborate investigations there by a distinguished team, one of whose stars is British-born Physiologist Reginald G. Bickford. The Mayo workers have placed electrodes deep in the brains of 13 patients at Rochester (Minn.) State Hospital to study schizophrenia, epilepsy and related seizures and brain tumors, always as a means of deciding exactly what surgery will be best. They have found that the deep brain waves make it possible to locate a tumor more precisely than ever before, and also to spot the damaged region which is causing epilepsy. These...
...researchers have been following a dual procedure, compiling results simultaneously in the laboratory and the clinic. Animal specimens are being used in the laboratory with varying results. In the clinic, eight transplantations have been performed on humans. No single attempt has been entirely successful, but the correlation of the various tests has given valuable clues to the nature of the eventual solution...