Word: damian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patron saints of physicians & surgeons are SS. Cosmas & Damian; of nurses, St. A.catha; of throat ailments, St. Blaise...
...until last week did an influential body of U. S. Catholic doctors dare to discuss the subject boldly and receptively. The group was Chicago's Cosmas & Damian Associates, guild of physicians and surgeons. Five hundred of them had scholarly Father John A. O'Brien of the University of Illinois on hand to give them ecclesiastical approbation and Dr. Arthur George Miller, a leading U. S. investi- gator of the fertility-sterility rhythm, to give them practical instruction...
...Damian, Rumania, villagers haunted by the "ghost" of Mrs. Stephen Safta, suicide, exhumed her body, cut out her heart, burned it, scattered the ashes...