Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the psychiatric section of Manhattan's vast Bellevue Hospital each year pass more than 17,000 patients. Through Bellevue's mental hygiene clinic each year pass another 3,000 mental suspects. Of the lot 6,500 are committed to permanent insane asylums or other institutions. Joining this yearly flotsam of mentally and emotionally deranged humanity are the 5,000 who drift through the psychiatric wards of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn...
...Razor Co. is to learn how to make shaving always a satisfactory operation. The research has been in progress for nearly four years. . . . The work has covered all phases from the manufacture of blades from special alloys to the study of actual shaving conditions by means of a shaving "clinic," organized among the Fellows of Mellon Institute. The findings are soon to be published in full. . . . According to these results the shaving problems of different individuals vary in character, but correct technics benefit all shavers. These include the taking of sufficient time for facial preparation before shaving (two minutes...
...underlying tooth enamel. Working on a new theory of pain, he developed a chemical which is spread on the surface of the tooth, painlessly destroys all capacity for pain within 60 to 90 seconds. Dr. Hartman has tested his "desensitizer" on some 500 cases in his school's clinic, succeeded where the best previous methods had left the patient to suffer excruciating pain. Unlike novocain and other anesthetics, the new substance produces no aftereffects, leaves tooth pulp normal and healthy. "It is so simple to use," declared Dr. Hartman, "that the patient is not aware of its application...
...remarkable feats of Johnny and Florie have taught ambitious parents to listen with respect when Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw speaks on baby training. In the Normal Child Development Clinic of Manhattan's Neurological Institute, Assistant Director McGraw took two pairs of identical twins, turned one member of each pair into a prodigy of confidence and skill (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933 et seq.). Last week pretty, inventive Dr. McGraw told members of Manhattan's Town Hall Club about a new twist in her campaign for brighter babies...
...innocent and unsuspecting. All the time I was held in preventive arrest-more than a year-they believed I was in a hospital with a broken leg. When I was allowed to see them several times, the stage was set for them. I was taken under guard to a clinic, stretched out in bed and my leg swathed in bandages before they were admitted. "I don't care about myself any more. It is the children's future which concerns me. The court will decide my fate, and I pray that the jury will be kind...