Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frederick Arthur Willius of the Mayo Clinic presented a statistical study (compiled with a couple of pals) comparing the health of several thousand smokers and non-smokers who had visited the clinic. Conclusions: 1) in 569 smokers between the ages of 40 and 59, there was three times as much heart disease as in a similar number of nonsmokers; 2) "beyond 60 years of age, no noteworthy differences were observed...
...service for very little ($1 to $5 a day) or, if they cannot pay, for nothing. Bellevue, though laboriously breezy and cliché-ridden, gives a thoroughgoing picture of the place-a smell of lysol; a babble of dialects and foreign tongues; tin benches (to discourage lice) in the clinic waiting rooms; tenement mothers cursing their offspring like truck drivers; dozing cops on guard at the bedsides of laid-up malefactors; a sign in the Accident Ward: DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING UNLESS THE NURSE SAYS IT IS ALL RIGHT...
...Chiropody is most useful in caring for the feet of patients with advanced diabetes, who, because of poor circulation, are liable to foot infections, even gangrene. In 1928 famed Diabetes Specialist Elliott Proctor Joslin founded a foot clinic in Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital, urged other large hospitals to do likewise. For valuable pioneering the convention last week made him an honorary member...
...Rome clinic last week lay Myron Charles Taylor, 66, slowly convalescing from his second gallstone operation in a twelvemonth. Despite his efforts as special ambassador to Pope Pius XII, World War II had spread further than ever. Reports were persistent that Mr. Taylor would resign when he was well enough...
...exorbitant membership fee, of $300 for the patients, the client would be supplied with the ten cataract cases. . . . Many doctors . . . made a fair living over a period of years by selling their patients . . . instead of treating them. ... In America the young surgeon would spend several years in a clinic before he could get his hands on ten cataract operations; in Vienna six weeks of time and a few hundred dollars accomplished the same results...