Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several years surgeons of the Mayo Clinic "have been becoming more & more fearful of operating on the keen, nervous, active, hard-living, 'go-getting', sales-manager type of man" who comes to them with an intestinal ulcer. That type is apt to develop another ulcer soon after the operation. Especially is this so if the man is of Jewish ancestry. The Jew seems to be particularly subject to a severe type of recurrent ulcer. Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez, Mayo internist, makes these observations in a thoroughgoing review of peptic ulcer, published last week in the American Journal...
...Long inconvenienced, though not debilitated, by a diverticulum (pouch) in his esophagus, Mr. Hearst saw TIME's report of modern surgery's success with the phenomenon (TIME, March 21), despatched his Manhattan medical reporter to learn TIME's sources, finally proceeded to the Crile Clinic, had his pouch sewed shut...
...diagnosed early and treated promptly in their incipiency, the annual death rate from the disease, now recorded as 150,000 in the U. S. and Canada, would be reduced by at least 33%, or 50,000 per year." But integrity compelled Dr. Stuart William Harrington of the Mayo Clinic to note that "present clinical methods are inadequate to detect malignancy until it is fairly well advanced...
Despite disappointments certain advances have been made during the year in the treatment and alleviation of cancer. In Chicago Dr. Loyal Edward Davis of Northwestern University Medical School & Director Max Cutler of Michael Reese Hospital tumor clinic have been treating certain brain tumors by inserting radium needles into the diseased brain tissue itself. In Manhattan Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg of the Neurological Institute & associates are saving nine out of ten of their brain tumor cases by early diagnosis and bold excision...
...Manhattan, a clinic patient sitting in St. Vincent's Hospital waiting room late at night saw another patient leap suddenly into the air, cry out, "I'm a fireman! I'm a fireman!" and fall back dead. Examination showed he had a dagger between his shoulder blades...