Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smart publicity poised a dentist atop the medical profession for a few days last week. It was the first time that such a thing had happened since 1846 when Dentist William Thomas Green Morton of Charlton, Mass., having successfully pulled teeth from patients under ether, persuaded a notable Boston surgeon to use that drug in a major operation. Anesthesia was again the ladder by which Columbia University's Dr. Leroy Leo Hartman mounted to last week's fame...
...publicity campaign began two months ago when Columbia University announced that Dr. Hartman had invented a tooth desensitizer which prevented pain while the dentist drilled to prepare a cavity for a filling. On grounds that Columbia's University Patents, Inc. wanted to patent the desensitizer Dr. Hartman, alarmed by what might happen to his professional reputation, obdurately refused to answer a multitude of pleas which dentists made to him for his preparation and method (TIME...
...rigorously. He drinks only lukewarm water because anything colder will tighten the membranes of his mouth. He avoids drafts as scrupulously as if he were a sensitive high-priced singer, never brushes his teeth before whistling because, as he explains, the natural film-coating provides a necessary lubricant. A dentist tends his teeth each month or so, however, because "I couldn't whistle with false teeth, at least not a solo." Says he: "I never have known what to style myself. Perhaps I am a whistlist...
...such defectives, especially to their parents. Professor Harold Stearns Vaughan of Columbia University, a surgeon-dentist who has been repairing the gaping roofs of mouths for 30 years, last week gave good cheer. In the American Journal of Surgery he pointed out that their defective speech is primarily due to the failure of the soft palate to close off and separate the nasopharynx (space back of the nose) from the oropharynx (mouth part of the throat). Consequence of such failure is that air which should escape from the mouth, during the enunciation of consonants, vibrates through the nasal cavity...
...important Philadelphia post went to pale, blond Eugene Ormandy, 36-year-old conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, who not many years ago was fiddling obscurely in Manhattan's Capitol Theatre. Fresh from Hungary, where his dentist-father had pushed him as a prodigy, he had been lured to the U. S. by a promise of a concert tour, only to have his manager fail him. Other men's misfortunes led to his swift rise as a conductor. The leader at the Capitol was taken suddenly ill one day; within a few hours the young violinist stepped into...