Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drew up beside him as he waddled along the sidewalk. Out stepped a man with a pistol and the morning quiet of the street was shattered by six explosions. Penn, the left side of his body torn up by five slugs, fell to the pavement screaming, "Get me a doctor! Get me a doctor...
...joyous Jacksons showed off little Alice to their admiring friends. Then suddenly they noticed that her head was swelling like a little balloon. The tender fontanel at the top of her head was tense and bulging, and thick blue veins stood out like cords underneath her downy hair. The doctor shook his head, told them that the baby had hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and, like 2,000 other hydrocephalic children born in the U. S. every year, was probably doomed to imbecility or death. Water pressure from the interior of her brain, he said, would squeeze the baby...
Determined to keep their hard-won baby, the Jacksons frantically combed Manhattan every day for a month, seeking a doctor who would offer them some hope. Last spring at the Neurological Institute they found young Dr. John Edwin Scarff. By this time the head of little eleven-pound Alice measured 18 inches in circumference. Dr. Scarff agreed to operate...
Died. Valentin ("Wonder Doctor") Zeileis, 65, world-publicized German healer, who treated thousands of ailing men and women by stroking them with an ''electric pencil" (a simple, high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery); of a laboratory injury; in Gallspach, Germany...
Still spry at 74, Labrador Doctor Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell sailed again last week for the desolate spot of rock (population 4,264) which he has nursed, fed, guided for half a century...