Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ketones. Infections of the kidney and bladder tract are hard for doctors to treat. Drs. Arnold E. Osterberg and Henry F. Helmholz of the Mayo Clinic reported experiments showing that ketonic bodies in the blood, such as acetone, diacetic acid and beta-oxybutyric acid, will cure such infections if generated in sufficient quantities. Best diet for stimulating ketone production is high in fat, low in proteins and sugar. Ideal fat-protein-sugar proportion...
...cruise to serve as president of the Association through next year's congress in Rio de Janeiro was shy, modest Dr. Chevalier Jackson of Philadelphia, famed for removing growths and foreign bodies from throat, windpipe, gullet, lung. At 68 he is still active in the Chevalier Jackson Bronchoscopic Clinic with which Temple University lured him away from University of Pennsylvania...
...took a long time for the wound to heal. By the time he got to school, in small Larksville, Pa., he could hardly use his arms at all and his teacher had to help him on with his coat and rubbers. For a while he was sent to a clinic for crippled children, until doctors discovered what was wrong with him. Then they took him to a hospital in Wilkes-Barre. Here he lay last week, thin, white, sandy-haired, his body slowly turning to bone...
With such patient, remote researches grows the body of knowledge which another Koch or Pasteur may some day synthesize into a cancer cure. In the meantime, cried Mayo Clinic's Dr. William Carpenter MacCarty in Toronto last week, let the world beware of any prolonged stomach ache or internal discomfort, no matter how slight. Said he: "It's a great mistake for people to think that cancer in its earliest stages produces any of the signs of severe illness. People should be warned to have examinations of internal ailments when there is still a chance for recovery...
...burned leg drove Charles Johnson to New York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them of his doctoring days at sea. Therefore he was promptly put in charge of the Home's ''ulcer clinic," housed in a filthy, waterfront shack which had once been a morgue...