Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he died of a heart attack Oct. 10 in the Rochester, Minn., hotel room where he was staying as an outpatient of the Mayo Clinic, a bizarre chain of events began to unfold. His death was kept from the press and public for more than 24 hours while top aides searched through his office at the state capital, ostensibly to remove personal papers that Powell would not have wished to be made public...
...sociopsychology department at Frankfurt's Sigmund Freud Institute, started his first "play school for parents" in Ulm, Germany, in 1955. Since that time, several additional Brocher-inspired schools have opened in Germany and other European countries, and the concept is now being tested at the Menninger Clinic in Kansas...
...turns out that Hippocrates was right after all. Proof of his accuracy comes from three Mayo Clinic researchers, Drs. Anton Sutor, E.J. Walter Bowie and Charles Owens Jr., who used hemophiliac volunteers to determine the effects of cold on bleeding. Their experiments were simple. Making small (1 mm.-long by 1 mm.-deep) wounds in their subjects' arms, they tried chilling first the wound itself, then the wound and the surrounding area, and finally the surrounding area alone. Each time they collected the blood in special plastic cubes and analyzed it to determine clotting time...
...findings constitute a complete vindication for Hippocrates. They also help correct a misinterpretation of his teachings. Hippocrates, notes the Mayo Clinic team, never recommended that cold be applied directly to a wound; he has been misquoted by those who claim that he did. As Hippocrates' 23rd Aphorism, written around 415 B.C., clearly states: "Cold should be used in the following cases: when there is, or is likely to be, hemorrhage, but it should be applied not to the parts whence blood flows, but around them...
...students have begun a unique effort to take the enclave's development in hand. Joe Godwin, 27, a bearded, bouncy anthropologist, has organized an Isla Vista Community Service Center. The Bank of America has put up $25,000 for expenses. The center's heart is a clinic run by Dr. David Bearman, 29, a veteran of Haight-Ashbury clinics. He dispenses contraceptives, treats VD and bad drug trips...