Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revelations of the existence of a quietly functioning "birth control clinic" at the Fifth Ave. (Manhattan) office of the American Birth Control League, combined with the agitation over a clinic in Chicago (TIME, Dec. 3) and the anticipated clash over birth control in the 68th Congress have again placed in the foreground of public attention one of the most vexed and, from whatever standpoint considered, one of the most important of medico-social problems...
...most States the action of the law depends on judicial interpretation. The recent decision of a Chicago court finds no provision in the Illinois law which would prevent the establishment of a clinic, while the New York statute specifically excepts from its prohibitions articles "used by physicians lawfully practicing, for the cure or prevention of disease...
...this loophole which has made possible the operation of the present Fifth Avenue "clinic" by the American Birth Control League, Mrs. Sanger's organization. The clinic has been running since Jan. 1, 1923, and has advised 900 women gratis, during that period. It is in charge of Dr. Dorothy Bocker, formerly director of maternity and infant hygiene with the Georgia State Board of Health, surgeon of the U. S. Public Health Service, a graduate of Long Island College Hospital Medical College and an instructor in various universities. The experiment has been investigated by hundreds of social workers and physicians...
Circuit Judge Fisher, of Chicago, threw a bomb among the numerous sturdy opponents of birth control in that city (who include Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.), when he granted a mandamus petition to compel the city to issue a license for the proposed birth control clinic, theme of great agitation. Judge Fisher's decision contained these words: " I am loath to subscribe to the proposition that knowledge of birth preventive methods would materially lessen morality. If true, it would be sad to contemplate the weakness of our moral sense." The city will appeal. It contends that there...
These were some of the high lights of an address at the 13th annual convention of the American College of Surgeons, Orchestra Hall, Chicago. Dr. Crile said in conclusion: " Although the theory has stood the test of the surgical clinic, it is not yet proven and will not be proven until the equivalent of a living cell is constructed . . . artificially...