Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, one such clinic in Shreveport, La., survived for almost four years under the very able directorship of Dr. W.P. Butler. A letter written in 1920 from the Shreveport Commissioner of Public Safety to the Louisiana State Board of Health states...
...writer feels that this letter is due the State Board, as well as simply an act of justice toward Dr. Butler, for upon the institution of the clinic I had grave doubts as to its efficacy, and in fact expressed myself as being bitterly opposed...
...records show that the Clinic here has cured a number of those afflicted with this habit, and some are working here and are citizens that respect themselves and are respected by this department. The authorities in charge of the Police Department in Shreveport would regard it a calamity should this Clinic be removed from this point, and we are as earnestly for it at the present time as we were bitterly opposed to it upon its institution here...
Frenchmen have also been stirred by the jailing in Belgium of respected Gynecologist Willy Peers for performing 300 abortions in his Namur clinic. The Belgians are even more aroused. A Peers defense committee has collected 200,000 signatures defending the "lay saint," as he is called, and 1,000 Belgians, including 300 doctors, have admitted that they have arranged, performed or undergone abortions...
...fact, a whole year passed without an episode. Finally, Slayton and Dr. Charles Berry, then the astronauts' chief physician, felt sufficiently encouraged to begin a series of complex cardiological tests, including the insertion of two tiny probes into Slayton's heart by specialists at the Mayo Clinic...