Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final fling at Mrs. Jarrett: "At the second [committee] meeting more than an hour was devoted to ascertaining the facts as to reports that Mrs. Jarrett, occupying a room with two young swimmers, could not be aroused by the team's physician and the ship's doctor...
Meanwhile in Warsaw, Polish Shotputter Zygmunt Heljasz backtalked to a doctor who was examining him. He was dismissed from his team for "misconduct...
Although Osteopath Wilson is a graduate doctor of medicine and has done research at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he believes in the "osteopathic lesion." This "lesion" is supposed to be a mechanical maladjustment of a joint, muscle, ligament or other tissue in the body. By correcting such lesions by might and main osteopaths claim that they can cure virtually all diseases. Thus in Manhattan last week they reported the following cases...
...thousand British regulars and Tories and a thousand Indians, he was driven into an ambush by his cocky, inexperienced officers. After he had driven the enemy off, directed a six-hour battle despite a shattered leg, he lost his life when General Benedict Arnold sent an inexperienced doctor to amputate. Before the War was over Valley people were about as bitter about the Continental Congress as they had been about the Tories. When Gilbert Martin went to draw his militiaman's pay after a summer of fighting, he found that each battle had been calculated separately, that his hero...
Manfully dentists last week strove to improve their status. Dr. Miner, their new president, who is both Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Medical Dentistry, told them: "Not until diagnosis becomes the foundation on which the whole structure of dentistry is built can it lay claim to be a learned profession or an important branch of the great art and science of healing." As tooth-menders, most dentists realize that they are little more than unrespected artisans working on the fringe of health. As preventers of dental disease, they run the risk of becoming doctors' handymen, in a class...