Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After stalling for a month, Sir Stafford Cripps gave in to his doctors' orders, left for a Zurich clinic to take a six-week treatment for an old ailment (colitis...
...Raymond had recommended a thorough bronchoscopy as soon as Sandy was six months old. The examination, at Philadelphia's Chevalier Jackson Clinic, showed a rare malformation: the aorta (great artery) leading up from the heart normally passes in front of the esophagus (gullet) and trachea (windpipe). Sandy's aorta was divided and formed a ring around the two tubes. When food distended the gullet, the windpipe was squeezed...
Human Laboratory. The most important of Sloan-Kettering's laboratories is the great hospital next door, including the Strang Prevention Clinic. Dr. Rulon W. Rawson, head of the Division of Clinical Investigation, explains that, after all, human patients are the best source of information about human cancer. Clinical investigation is a two-way street. Observation of patients, especially their reaction to treatment, gives clues for researchers to follow. When the laboratories develop some new method applicable to human beings, the hospital is the only conclusive place...
Besides its official visitors, the Clinic also has unofficial ones. One was a little old lady who came in and demanded a Certificate of Good Conduct. She explained that the Devil kept accusing her of being sinful, that she wasn't, and that she wanted something she could show him to prove it. The Clinic obligingly manufactured a certificate. It evidently satisfied the Devil, because the little old lady hasn't been back since...
Visitors are not the Clinic's only problem. It also has to deal with all the crackpot mail that comes into the University. A couple of years ago an excited gentleman wrote in to report the discovery of 'the greatest psychological phenomena extant." He had discovered, he said, that he was being pursued by a group of tormentors with the "astounding, unheard of, utterly unbelievable occult powers" of projecting their voices like radio transmitters. It was quite a discovery, but the Clinic reaped the reward. That gentleman's case history is now required reading in a large psychology course...