Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood, cause back pressure upon the heart. Hardened arteries are irreparable. Tense arteries are that way because sympathetic nerves constrict them. If those nerves are drugged the arteries will relax, the blood pressure will fall. To make such relaxation permanent, surgeons like Dr. Alfred Washington Adson of the Mayo Clinic cut the sympathetic nerves involved. The most effective operation. said Dr. Adson, is rhizotomy, or the snipping of the nerve roots as they come out of the spinal column. To accomplish this, Dr. Adson cuts ribs on both sides of the chest and almost takes the torso apart...
...great Scotsman lay dying in London Clinic Nursing Home last week while his doctors kept from him the fact that Britain has filled the Mediterranean with war boats. The shock of knowing that, they said, would surely kill Arthur Henderson. Wracked by jaundice and gallstones at 72, he was still president of the General Disarmament Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments...
...robust Chicago politicians, led by Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, departed, proud that they had supplied the money to enable Iroquois Memorial Hospital to inaugurate what they believed was the world's first pneumothorax clinic for the wholesale treatment of tuberculosis...
...There are many instances of cancer coming back after eight or ten years. Medical men do not generally speak or write about positive results in cancer until the minimum of five years has elapsed." Nonetheless, last week the Kingston clinic of the Hendry Connell Research Foundation, Ltd. had 266 active customers, attended by seven doctors on the regular staff and three professors called into consultation from excited Queen's University. And students piling into the small city for the University's first semester had unexpected difficulty finding lodgings for themselves...
...year or two after medical school when the graduate doctor is fulfilling his interneship requirements. In most of the 697 good U. S. hospitals, the interne gets an opportunity to ride the ambulance to emergency cases, to practice medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and x-ray technique on ward and clinic cases. Experienced practitioners hover over him all the time, show him how to do this & that. In time he may get opportunity to suture the peritoneum after the appendectomist or the laparotomist gets through his work. But real experience in surgery is usually reserved for the man who intends...