Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only city in the U.S. where psychiatrists outnumber all other kinds of doctors; it is the largest training center for psychiatrists in the world; it trains 15% of all the psychiatrists now being trained in the U.S. Topeka is the home of the Menninger Foundation (formerly Menninger Clinic), of which Dr. Will is general secretary and clinical director; it is also the home of the Winter General Hospital, center of the Veterans Administration's psychiatric training program, whose teaching psychiatrists are largely supplied by the foundation...
Psychotherapy (the treatment of mental illness) includes other surprising-and less unpleasant-methods. At the Menninger clinic, for instance, doctors might prescribe, for a depressed patient, "two weeks of unsolicited love." This means that the patient's doctor and nurses should treat him with the full measure of brotherly love that he needs but does not know how to ask for. Psychiatrists also use music as a soother, and such "occupational therapy" as publishing newspapers, carpentry and jewelry-making...
...setup here is unique," Dr. Moritz said. Other states maintain their own bureaus of legal medicine. According to Dr. Moritz, Harvard is the only university to maintain such a clinic, and is the only university that regularly and actively aids in the tracking down of criminals...
...Philadelphia and in a clinic in the heart of hard coal country, Dr. Motley tried this apparatus on 500 silicotic miners. All of them reported various degrees of relief. But a partial cure is not enough. Soon the United Mine Workers will send research teams down into the mines to find out if silicosis can also be prevented...
...long and complicated, but the important facts are these. In 1879, one of the so-called Blue Laws was passed making it illegal to advertise or give information about contraceptive devices. As medical knowledge increased and Victorianism waned, the law sank into oblivion. In 1938, however, when birth control clinics were flourishing throughout the Commonwealth, the old law was unexpectedly enforced when the Salem Clinic was raided by police and the doctors arrested. The Supreme Court of the Commonwealth upheld the police action followed by the closing of all the clinics. Thus Massachusetts became one of the two states...