Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several physiological facts needed for making an intelligent diagnosis. The physician measures the blood pressure by wrapping around the patient's upper arm a hollow rubber cuff to which is connected a graduated column of mercury. Applying a stethoscope over an artery in the forearm, the doctor pumps air into the hollow cuff until it stops circulation. At this instant the air pressure in the cuff equals the maximum (systolic) blood pressure in the arteries of the arm, and the doctor hears a sharp blowing sound in his stethoscope. Whatever figure the sphygmomanometer gauge shows at that instant...
...Concessionaire Males set up big signs reading: "Attendant is forbidden to diagnose, prescribe or treat under any circumstances. The only purpose of this (non-stethoscope) machine is to let you read your own blood pressure, and nothing else. For a true medical interpretation you are referred to your Family Doctor. . . ." A State medical inspector, egged on by irate doctors, ordered Barnet Males to get himself and machine off the Boardwalk. Mr. Males dodged around to the entrance of Coney Island's Luna Park, sued to restrain the police from bothering him, intransigently placed this advertisement in Billboard, trade sheet...
...Also in trouble with the law at Coney Island last week was one Bernard Roth for wearing the white uniform and stethoscope of a hospital interne. Chased away for pretending to be a doctor, he claimed that he simply wanted to be able to help a life-saving crew in case of accident...
Mary French takes a different road. A Colorado doctor's daughter who hates her hateful mother, she goes from Vassar into settlement work and from there into the labor movement, falls in love with one radical hero after another, only to be betrayed by all of them. Drowning her personal despair in work for the Cause, she finally emerges as an impersonal, efficient cog in Revolution's painfully assembling machine...
...least remarkable feature of the volume was that Edith Sitwell should have written it. The oldest member of an industrious literary family that includes Osbert (Before the Bombardment, Miracle on Sinai) and Sacheverell (Doctor Donne and Gargantua, All Slimmer in a Day), she has previously been best known for her calm, highbrow aloofness, her volumes of verse, her idiosyncratic individualism, her interest in famed British eccentrics, her biography of Alexander Pope. Now 49, she is tall (over 6 ft.), blonde, unmarried, with straight classic features. Readers who know her previous books will be surprised at the interest in social conditions...