Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference with indignation of conditions at the School: 60 girls, mostly Negroes, aged 14 to 21, were its inmates. All had been thrice convicted, mostly for sex offenses. Twenty-six of the girls were syphilitic and practically all of them had gonorrhea. There was no full-time doctor in attendance. The girls lived in locked cells on unlighted brick corridors, with only one toilet and one bathtub (with no hot water) for every 16 girls. One delinquent had her illegitimate baby in her cell. All of them ate in the kitchen where the laundry was hung...
Back at the King David Hotel, a doctor allowed Haile Selassie to have only one visitor, a British bank manager. Together they went over the inventory of the treasure on which the Emperor must live for the rest of his life.What he brought on the Enterprise was estimated at a little over $5,000,000. One important item was already safely in a London vault, the imperial crown of Ethiopia. Solid gold, weighing more than three pounds, studded like a plum cake with rubies, diamonds, sapphires, it was shipped out of Addis Ababa before the fall of the city seemed...
Eskimos "can tolerate pain, extreme cold, and fatigue." When the Montreal doctor stopped at Pond Inlet on Baffin Island, he encountered a native who, impatient at the delay of healing a frozen foot, had shortly before amputated the gangrenous portion himself. The wound was healing and the man, "with the aid of a cane, assisted at the unloading of the cargo...
...Another case was a young college student. He suddenly developed abnormal pains and a mental attitude that made his studies impossible. We really were convinced after a time that it was a mental case. Another doctor began testing him on food reactions. Two days later he called me over and showed me that the dull and apathetic boy was eager and bright again. The trouble was that he was sensitive to eggs. At school he had been eating, three or four of them every morning and it was enough to knock...
Humor of the Old Deep South is divided into sections on Indians, Hunters & Fishermen, Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians, Preachers, Players & Showmen, Barkeepers & Bonifaces, Broadhorn Boys & Steamboat Bullies, Pirates & Picaroons, Duelists, Ha'nts, Greenhorns, Ladies, Darkies et al. The humorous incidents have been laid so long in lavender that they have mostly lost their tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon...