Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another came to us via a Carnegie Traveling Fellowship and a job under John Winant at the International Labor office in Geneva; one prepared at college for a diplomatic career; another ran a hospital clinic in New York for four years; two were on the staff of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and two were analysts for Standard Statistics before they came to TIME . . . One (a graduate economist) researched for the OPA in Washington-and one was a reporter in Europe from the Austrian Anschluss to the Polish invasion. Another came to us from the Sunday Express of Johannesburg...
Died. Dr. John Richard Brinkley, 56, Kansas' goat-bearded "goat-gland" medico-politico; of heart disease; in San Antonio. He exploited the desire of age for youth's potency, peddling a gland emulsion and grafting goat glands at his "rejuvenation clinic" in Milford, Kans. In his heyday he had three yachts, several raudy limousines, decorated himself with diamonds, employed 50 secretaries, took in a reputed $1,000,000 a year. He sold prescriptions over the air from his own radio station, broadcast diagnoses, threw in a little preaching. After Kansas revoked his license to practice...
While the patients sang Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here, State Education Inspector Albert A. Buchholz served the doctor with a summons to appear before the medical grievance committee of the State Department of Education. The charges: 1) operating a dispensary and clinic without a permit; 2) "falsely, fraudulently, deceitfully and unlawfully" allowing unlicensed persons to practice medicine in the clinic; 3) violating State law by advertising unethically in magazines...
...Cowles, a graduate M.D. of 62, with great faith in the suggestibility of mankind, started his clinic, known originally as the Body & Soul, in 1923 in connection with Manhattan's famous church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. Six years later, Actress Jeanne Eagels died in his Park Avenue sanitarium, of an overdose of heroin. By 1932, after Dr. Cowles had treated several thousand patients in St. Mark's, the vestrymen told Dr. Cowles to clear out. This action was approved by Bishop William T. Manning...
Investigators reported that the doctor's treatment for all cases, from ulcers to neuroses, was the same: several hundred patients gathered three times a week at his clinic, lined up before a "cocktail window," received a brownish liquid in a paper cup. The mixture was called A.T.O.P., for reasons unknown, and contained the powerful drugs chloral hydrate, bromides, digitalis. After drinking this potion (which often made them giddy, set them a-warbling), patients proceeded in line to "treatment" by Dr. Cowles. New patients were examined and interviewed by two of Dr. Cowles's non-medico assistants. Placing...