Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Drs. Bernstine and Bland picked at random 228 volunteers, women attending Jefferson's pre-natal clinic. Most of them had pregnancy complications, including anemia, tuberculosis, heart disease, venereal disease. Some of these complications, noted Drs. Bernstine and Bland, are "factors predisposing, either directly or indirectly, to puerperal infection...
Developed by Walter F. Dearborn, director of the Harvard Psycho-Educational Clinic, this new technique in reading gives promise of being one of the most effective devices for the improvement of skills in reading...
...Hospital is to most hospital romances what the Mayo Clinic is to an osteopath. Not even during the recent epidemic of doctors' and nurses' memoirs has a book smelled so strongly of ether and carbolic. Above all, Kenneth Fearing is a specialist in diagnosing hospital life as experienced by the patient-its atmosphere of muffled crises, sterilized optimism, morbid freshness, of surrealist panic as viewed through an anesthetic mask...
...society with its hair down. The story, told through the eyes of a dozen characters, is concentrated in a maximum half hour of a sweltering summer afternoon. Revolving from furnace room to Surgery, from the laundry to superintendent's office, it includes autopsy room, nurses' quarters, wards, clinic, even a scene in which a tugboat is loaded with consignments for potter's field...
Last week in Modern Medicine, Dr. Bayard Taylor Horton and associates* of the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn* announced a new method of treating the "constant, excruciating, burning, boring" headaches of chronic alcoholics. When the system is flooded with alcohol, large amounts of histamine, a protein derivative, pour into the blood stream. Somehow, said the doctors, the histamine expands blood vessels in the head, causes hangover headaches. Strangely enough, they found that "immunizing" injections of minute quantities of histamine brought permanent relief to 65 patients, no improvement to ten patients...