Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School entirely new quarters have been provided in Austin Hall in the ground floor room formerly used as a smoking room. The Hygiene Department has had for some years a part-time doctor who several afternoons a week occupied a small cubbyhole devoid even of a washbasin, situated behind the entrance to the reading room. Facilities were so poor, however, and the doctor in attendance was there so short a time that only 57 per cent of the men registered as Law students made use of the opportunity to consult him during the year...
...heart, blood vessels or glands have increased more rapidly than the organic. A tactfully conducted pursuit of the causes removes the screen of headache, insomnia, indigestion and fatigue and the anxiety factor stands revealed. Life has always had a certain amount of strain connected with it," continued the noble doctor. "That is the penalty we pay for living. But the stress of modern life is excessive. We seem these days to live by accident rather than...
...American Chemical Society is no less eager to publicize itself and its doings than is the American Medical Association. Early last week the Society's publicity department handed reporters a copy of a speech by a Jersey City manufacturing chemist named Herman Seydel in which that Doctor of Philosophy declared that a compound of benzoates of his devising was the long-sought single cure for arthritis (TIME, Sept. 14). The speech was released for immediate publication, though Chemist Seydel was not to deliver it before the Society, meeting in Pittsburgh, until four days later. So closely watched...
...cause, Dr. Macklin added: "The belief that cancer is inherited need not be a gloomy one. We can hardly make the picture darker than it is when we tell the public that one of every seven or eight adults will die of cancer. No one person can pay a doctor for a complete examination as to the possibilities of his having all the varieties of cancer that there are. But he can be examined for the more common kinds, and for the type someone else in his family has had. Thus we may get the patients for early diagnosis...
Shrinking Drinks. To demonstrate how rapidly capillaries react to heat and cold. Dr. Fred Bennett Moor of Los Angeles had a fellow doctor take a drink of ice water while holding his arm immersed in a tank of water. Soon as the cold drink made itself felt in the demonstrator's stomach, water level in the tank fell measurably, thus indicating that the cooled stomach drew blood from the capillaries of the arm. Consequently the capillaries shrank, and the bulk of the arm with them. These changes must have some effect on heart and lungs, argued Dr. Moor, urging...