Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alarmed by the problem of where vagotomy may eventually lead, two eminent authorities, Dr. Frank H. Lahey, head of Boston's famed Lahey Clinic, and Dr. Russell S. Boles, of the University of Pennsylvania, last week proposed a five-year moratorium on vagotomies to see how the current cases turn...
...cases lobotomy seems to be successful. But one patient in ten is relaxed too much by the operation; three in ten remain tense. Psychiatrists recommend the operation only for otherwise incurable psychotics. But at the chief U.S. lobotomy centers-George Washington University Hospital, Lahey Clinic, Boston Psychopathic-surgeons are being swamped by demands for lobotomy by alcoholics, criminals, frustrated businessmen, unhappy housewives and people who are just nervous...
...over again, larger. The final version, which hangs in London's Tate Gallery, is still a great crowd-puller, but a less sentimental age no longer weeps openly at the sight of it, as visitors once did. The smaller first version is the proudest possession of the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre...
...Irving S. Wright of New York's Post-Graduate Hospital reported that he had successfully treated more than 300 patients. Dr. Edgar V. Allen of the Mayo Clinic had used the two drugs in nearly 700 attacks of pulmonary embolism and venous thrombosis. Under previous treatments, by normal expectancy, 80 patients would have died. Dr. Allen's score: one death...
...Dentists at the Mayo Clinic and Columbia University sounded a warning that you may ruin your teeth if you drink too much...