Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Rabbi Henry Cohen, 89, for 64 years spiritual leader of Galveston's Temple B'nai Israel, whom Woodrow Wilson called "the First Citizen of Texas"; in Houston. British-born Henry Cohen came to Galveston in 1888, soon became famous for scurrying through the streets and stopping to jot down on his long, white cuff ("my notebook") the names of those he must help, regardless of creed ("There is no such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict...
When Drs. Eli Robins and Mandel E. Cohen and the late Dr. James J. Purtell began their study, they thought it would be easy to find patients because their colleagues spoke of there being a few hysterical men in every hospital. This, it soon developed, was not so. The "hysterical" men actually had diseases ranging from epilepsy to cancer and poliomyelitis. In fact, for a long time the three researchers could find no men in a civilian hospital whose illness fitted the definition of hysteria. So they turned to military and veterans' hospitals...
...Robins and Cohen do not present their findings as final. Rather, they urge that data on "hysterical" men be kept separate from that on hysterical women. And if any physician finds a genuine case of old-fashioned hysteria in a man, they want to know about...
...Cohen considers that his own psychology is now sound again. "Writing the thesis was a catharsis for me," he says. "I'm freed of my troubles." He has remarried, has a baby daughter, and is practicing in Arnhem...
...Which Cohen, already a licensed physician (dokter), submitted to Utrecht University to earn the title doctor...