Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prophylactic teams, each composed of a specially trained doctor, a nurse and a clerk, this summer started to experiment on a national scale with the Peet-Schultz prophylactic under the general direction of Dr. Charles Armstrong of the U. S. Public Health service who last year found that the spraying of Alabama children's noses with alum did some good in preventing infantile paralysis. Half-a-dozen teams operated in Omaha last week. These teams soon found that metal tipped atomizers are apt to Injure the nostrils of young children, who jerk and sneeze when treated. Children...
Having proved by bacteriologic tests that the Hansa's sick actually suffered from typhoid, health officers threatened to raise a loud scandal if she took on any passengers for Europe. Rather than face this, Captain Lehmann quietly loaded freight and mail, took on an extra doctor and nurses, sailed with his sick straight back to Germany...
...convention. There are now ten veterinary colleges in the U. S. and two in Canada, all departments of universities or State colleges. Last September 2,500 qualified applicants sought admission to those schools, but there was room for only 646. A big reason for men wanting to doctor animals is that the 5,000,000 owners of 200,000,000 American cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses realize more & more the dollar-&-cent value of scientific medical advice and treatment for their flocks and herds...
...circumstance which prevents doctors going the whole hog in the case of Sulfanilamide is that they do not know whether it cures by killing germs and virus in the body or by stimulating the body to kill the invaders with its own, natural protective forces. And conscientious doctors use no drugs ignorantly. Another objection to Sulfanilamide is the fact that its toxicity is not known. After curing some people of blood poisoning, it seems to have caused agranulocytosis (a dangerous deficiency of white blood cells). When a doctor must decide between blood poisoning which is killing his patient...
...worth of common stock. Financial writers then discovered Marcellus Joslyn's old labor policy, adopted during the post-War period of strikes and labor migrations, and Father Coughlin presented him with an oratorical laurel wreath. Scholarly President Joslyn-who is 64, and often mistaken for a doctor because of his black goatee and spectacles, and who still goes to the office every day except Wednesday, when he stays home to read to his wife while she knits-enjoys a great deal of pride in all this. And his company has enjoyed 18 years of labor peace. The plan...