Word: diagnosticians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leon J. Warshaw in Malaria: the Biography of a Killer, published this week (Rinehart; $3.75). Actually, says Dr. Warshaw, the disease has struck from the Arctic to Patagonia. Once known as "the shakes," it was rife a century ago throughout most of the U.S. Dr. Warshaw, a New York diagnostician, estimates the number of U.S. sufferers today as high as 4,000,000. But no one knows just how many there are, because malaria is a skilled mimic, imitating the symptoms of other diseases...
...impress quite so easily. He accused Rickenbacker, in effect, of staging a grandstand play. Putting Rickenbacker's newest offer into practice, said O'Connell, would mean amending the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act to "create an absolute monopoly of north-south air transportation . . . east of the Mississippi." But Diagnostician Rickenbacker had, at any rate, called attention once more to the fact that since the war he has held the domestic monopoly on the secret of making steady profits...
...Women, declared Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, noted Mayo Clinic diagnostician, exhibit a tendency to "wear themselves out trying to make over an ordinary, good, kind prosaic husband into a Charles Boyer...
...open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery elm (still used in lozenges for sore throat). He kept the arm, but later developed osteomyelitis (stubborn infection of the bone). The infections from the bullets, Diagnostician Gardner thinks, brought on amyloidosis (a waxy degeneration of body tissues). Jackson reached Washington after his first election as President "62 years old, racked with pain, fainting from weakness." Concludes Researcher Gardner: "No structure ever endured under greater handicaps than the frame that supported the brain of the astonishing, the determined, the invincible...
Died. Dr. Emanuel Libman, 73, master diagnostician, specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of once incurable subacute bacterial endocarditis, more widely known for his offhand feats of medical clairvoyance (he predicted Warren G. Harding's death after seeing him at a dinner party; muttered "enlarged gall bladder" after a first quick glance at Oscar Levant); after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan. In accordance with his wish, an autopsy was performed...