Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Cleveland's vast Public Auditorium, where the American Medical Association was holding its annual meeting (see col. 1), an urgent question was frequently relayed: "Where's Dickinson? Where's Dickinson?" Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, a sprightly, tousle-headed octogenarian, was wanted by many an exhibitor whose scientific side show needed a few finishing touches from the Dickinson palette and brush...
...famed gynecologist and obstetrician, Dr. Dickinson has not practiced for many a year. He spends some of his time giving young couples advice about marriage. But his chief occupation is designing scientific sculptures of the female body to teach laymen about birth control, pregnancy, female disorders. In his exhibit last week he displayed his popular "Birth Prelude" -a plaque of dimpled, della Robbia-like babies in terra cotta, showing the growth of a fetus from conception to birth. With characteristic Dickinsonian whimsey, the largest fetus holds the tiniest one in his hand. Another pair of plaques showed graphically...
...medicine owes a great deal of its knowledge about sex practices to Dr. Dickinson. A pioneer in the birth-control movement, he traveled round the world several times, quizzing prostitutes in Berlin, Paris, Shanghai. With Dr. Howard Canning Taylor and such top-flight specialists as Drs. Frederick Clark Holden and Franklin Mar tin as members, he formed the American Gynecological Travel Club, which went all over the U.S. and Europe, observing operations in different clinics, exchanging information on techniques. "In those days," he told some of his admirers last week, "we used to hold a spare knife between our teeth...
...talks. With his devoted wife, who died a few years ago, he used to take long hikes along the Hudson River Palisades, and wrote a New York Walk Book. He still chops wood, goes for long jaunts. A regular visitor at important medical meetings, Dr. Dickinson is usually seen with a pencil poised over a well-worn black notebook, looking intently at the speaker. He is not taking notes; he is sketching a profile...
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