Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edith Graham Mayo, widow of Mayo Clinic's late great "Dr. Charles," mother of eight children (three deceased), an adopted daughter, a foster son, grandmother of 22 offspring, blushed and stammered "I am just scared" when she was chosen American Mother for 1940. 1935's Mother: Mrs. Fletcher M. Johnson, Gainesville, Ga.; 1936's: Mrs. James R. Smith, Claremont, Calif.; 1937's: Mrs. Carl R. Gray, Omaha, Neb.; 1938's: Mrs. Grace Noll Crowell, Dallas, Tex.; 1939: Mrs. Elias Compton, Wooster, Ohio...
...TIME (Dec. 11) reported on sulfamethylthiazole when Dr. Grayson Carroll of St. Louis announced that he had used it successfully on five patients. Last week in Cleveland, at a meeting of the American College of Physicians, doctors from the Mayo Clinic, Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Pennsylvania added their voices to Dr. Carroll's after trying sulfathiazole (a similar sulfanilimide derivative) on 1,600 cases of bacterial infection...
Many a U. S. appendix is still marked "Do not disturb"; but many another is no longer at home. Last week a famed specialist suggested (by implication) that more than one appendectomy he knows about was no better than a kidnapping. Several years ago, Mayo Clinic's famed Digestion Expert Walter Clement Alvarez started a notebook in which he collected experiences of patients whose appendixes had been reft from them. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association he told what he had learned from 385 patients. Of these, 130 had suffered at least one sharp bellyache...
...Breathitt's only hospital is closing. The hospital doctor is going away, leaving only two physicians and young, overworked County Health Officer Frank K. Sewell to cope with the trachoma (eye inflammation), syphilis, gonorrhea in Breathitt's remote mountain shacks. To get to Morris Fork for a clinic once every six weeks, Dr. Sewell has to ride mule-back or walk the last five miles across two mountains...
...care. In the last three years, Dr. West and his staff of 200 have X-rayed 250,000 people, have lowered the infant mortality rate from 100 per 1,000 to 52, the maternal mortality rate from 18 to five. Over 500 patients a day visit a venereal disease clinic in the Center. But for all his efforts. Dr. West has scarcely dented the terrific t.b. figure. Medicine has no specific for poverty and overcrowding...