Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through classes the dream is in my mind. Afterwards to wander aimlessly . . . Shepard Hall. The sign on the door reads, "Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research; Driver Test Clinic." Some impulse moves me inside. A professor beside a machine that seems a cross between an airplane cockpit and the driver's seat of an automobile. "You have come for a test?" he asks. "I don't know," I reply. Without more encouragement he ushers me to the seat and bids me grasp the wheel. "When you see the red light, apply the brakes as fast...
Thyroidectomies. Another sobering surgical discussion at Philadelphia last week came from Dr. Frank Howard Lahey of Boston who, like the Mayos and Dr. George Washington Crile, built up a great surgical clinic on a foundation of excised goitres. Dr. Lahey and his associates have performed 15,200 thyroidectomies since the War, have had only in deaths. Last week Dr. Lahey told how he achieved that happy record...
Continuing the investigation of speech disorders started by Professor Frederick C. Packard '20 two years ago, the first meeting of the Speech Clinic took place Wednesday night in Holden Chapel. Seven members attended this session and a few prospective members. Professor Packard will also be glad to consult with any others who wish to avail themselves of the course's opportunities...
This year Dr. Frederick W. Ilfeld '28, now orthopedic surgeon on the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital, will act as a consultant connected with the Hygiene Department to help Professor Packard with examination and case histories of those students in the Clinic. The retaining of Dr. Ilfeld will thus tie up the Speech Clinic with the Hygiene Department, a move long sought...
...Friday and Saturday a total of 119 men turned up not including the 239 men who took physical exams for football practice. Yesterday 62 more tottered into the clinic, presumably just fresh from the home town or some other vacation resting place. There was no epidemic of any sort, a cold in the head or the bellyache or perhaps the prospect of the coming academic year merely gave them an acute attack of weltechmery. Only nine of all these 181 however had to go the full distance up Brattle Street to the Stillman and take another forced rest...