Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skin tests failed to reveal any specific allergy. A Washington doctor cut out the adolescent's tonsils, with no effect on the sneezing. Other specialists could find nothing unusual in her lungs or nervous system...
...Publicity is the cheapest thing a doctor can pursue. But when it serves a purpose, you've got to do it. Make any vice look ridiculous, and it won't flourish much longer.'' So says Northwestern University's Professor Laurence Hampson Mayers, who addressed members of the American Society for the Study of Arthritis at their meeting in Manhattan last week. Publicity was not long coming his way when he waved a fat roll of typed paper at the arthritis specialists. The roll, said he, was 31 ft. long. All that yardage was needed...
...because there are a thousand causes of the disease and each cause requires separate treatment." Continuing his efforts to make vice look ridiculous, Dr. Mayers declared that "of 100 cases of sickness 80 will recover naturally; eight will die in any event, and only in twelve cases can the doctor be of any assistance." He made not a few practitioners in the audience look ridiculous when he concluded: "There is plenty of arthritis that is cured. How much of a part even the doctors play in it is questionable...
...third of a series of lectures on Prevention and Treatment of Skiing Injuries was given Monday night at the Junior League. Charles N. Proctor, noted designer of trails, Doctor Charles C. Lund '20, authority on treatment of skiing injuries, and Maurice M. Osborne '08 spoke on the transportation and first aid of the injured...
Broker Meehan had plenty of time to brood upon his case before the SEC's hearing got under way. Then last spring in the middle of the proceedings his attorney had to announce: "It is unfortunate that Mr. Meehan cannot take the stand in his own defense . . . his doctors inform me . . . that the state of his health is such that it is impossible for him to appear. I understand that the Commission's doctor ... is of similar opinion." Broker Meehan dropped from the news, and the Meehan case, still undecided, dragged on without...