Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Decompression Clinic...
Opened this month, the clinic employs a technique developed in the mid-1950s by Professor Ockert S. Heyns (pronounced Haynes), 61, of the Uni versity of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Heyns, seeking means of relaxing and stretching abdominal muscles during labor to reduce the pain of childbirth, hit upon the notion that a reduction of atmospheric pressure outside the abdomen might help. According to him, a woman's uterus pushes forward and changes shape from oval to nearly spherical during labor contractions. But often, he explains, the muscles of the abdominal wall interfere with this transformation, causing...
...Moving the teaching done in the third and fourth years into hospital settings. It is now done in a clinic of the Dental School...
Forms of dance therapy are used throughout the Boston area--the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, McLean Hospital, the South Shore Mental Health Clinic in Quincy, and in the special education program for exceptional children in the Newton schools...
Doctor Coles and I wish to make it clear that our plans to establish a free clinic in Cambridge were not in anyway determined by criticism of the health service at Harvard. The contrary implication is a reflection of the persistent questions of your reporter to both of us and not of our clear statement to him. Joseph H. Brenner, M.D. M.I.T. Medical Department