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Sweet revenge to onetime Dentist Marquet, described as a combination of Huey Long, Don Juan and Hitler, was the purging of Daladier. In 1934 the ex-Premier suggested the possibility of a Cabinet post to Marquet. "I'll take the Interior or nothing," the latter declared and confided to a colleague, "Now that there are a couple of two-fisted men at the helm like Daladier and myself, there is nothing to fear." He did not get the post, and became anti-Daladier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hour of Truth | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...eagle-eye who can spot false teeth at a ten-yard glance is Boston Dentist Simon Myerson, brother of famed Harvard Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson. Every time gentle, absent-minded Dr. Myerson sees a mouthful of neat, dead-white false teeth, he shudders. Five years ago, Dr. Myerson was struck all of a heap. He called in his eldest son, Martin, a ceramist, and got busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unspottable Teeth | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...William H. Welch did not believe "the real originator of anesthesia was Dentist William Thomas Green Morton. . . ." He gave that honor to Horace Wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...does it appear that ether was used in any single hospital in the world to allay the agony of surgical operations prior to the demonstration by Dentist Morton at the Massachusetts General Hospital on Oct. 16, 1846. The very word "anesthesia" sprang into being some few weeks later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...article headed "Who Discovered Anesthesia?" The two groups best qualified to pass on the respective claims of the various contestants, namely the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association, decided that the honor of being called the discoverer of anesthesia was due Dr. Horace Wells, a dentist of Hartford, Conn. The American Dental Association voted this honor to Wells in 1864 and the American Medical Association did likewise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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