Word: diagnosticians
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With focal infection as his theme the Billings Lecturer must be an eminent clinician, a topnotch diagnostician, a wise interpreter of the symptoms which a patient brings to his examination room. Billings Lecturers in the past have included such front-rank men as Dr. Joseph Leggett Miller, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Chicago, specialist in vaccine therapy and rheumatism; Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner, Cornell professor of medicine, editor of the American Heart Journal; Dr. James Bryan Herrick of Chicago, specialist in diseases of the heart and blood vessels; the late William Sydney Thayer (1864-1932), 1928 president...
...Libman's present preoccupation, and probably his most important contribution to the science and practice of Medicine, concerns Pain. Chiefly by evidence of pain can a doctor tell what ails his patient. Diagnostician Libman has discovered that people are either sensitive (i. e. normal) or hyposensitive (i. e. subnormal) to pain and that the sensitives and the hyposensitives show systematically different symptoms when suffering from the same disease...
...Medicine summoned the best available authorities to a special symposium. Dr. Emanuel Libman, 63, of Manhattan, famed among medical scholars for his discoveries in all kinds of heart and visceral diseases, explained the causes of coronary disease and angina pectoris. Dr. Henry Harlow Brooks, 64, of Manhattan, famed diagnostician, explained the best medical treatment. Dr. Harold Myers Marvin, 41, a rising Yale scholar, evaluated treatment by surgery...
...Tests indicate that the diagnostician can be more certain than ever before of recognizing a cancer or benign tumor in its early stage," said Inventor Simjian. "Another very important point is that for the first time it becomes possible to illuminate blood vessels." Among other photographic devices invented by Mr. Simjian are a fogged silver screen for projecting microscopic photographs, a self-focusing camera, an automatic developing tank, a system of mirrors and a camera with which a subject can photograph any desired aspect of his face, and a set of mirrors for dress and hat shops inside which...
...Soon as he received the $1,000 check, Dr. Kahn told friends last week, he endorsed it to Dr. Emanuel Librnan, Manhattan diagnostician (see p. 51), who had loaned him $2.000 to buy an Ann Arbor home...