Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franz Boas got into anthropology 53 years ago. He has invaded almost every branch of this science: linguistics, primitive mentality, folklore, ethnology, growth and senility, the physical effects of environment. He reminds his colleagues of the oldtime family doctor who did everything from delivering babies to pulling teeth...
...while he still was Harvard's brilliant medical light, Dr. Harvey Williams Gushing was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of his great good friend, the late Sir William Osier. The award saluted a rarity, an able doctor who was also an able literary craftsman. The salute also confirmed Dr. Cushing's reputation as a thoroughgoing medical historian...
...However useful historians may eventually find Dr. Cushing's complete diaries, they will find From a Surgeon's Journal poor history, for it reveals too little about that medically significant author's own activities. One unconnected series of jottings, however, is interesting to historian, layman and doctor. That is Dr. Cushing's record of how polyneuritis ambulatoria crept upon him and crippled him be fore he, a nerve specialist, realized what was occurring. The disease frequently is the sequel of some infection like scarlet fever or influenza. Nerves become inflamed, the inflammation progressing along nerve trunks...
...four years before he saw England again. Besides his job as ship's doctor he had the un-naval post of naturalist, and intended to keep a weather eye out for Mollusca, Acalephae, Cirripedia, epizoa, Radiata and such. He rigged up a home-made tow-net to snare his specimens, soon ran afoul of the navigation officers, who complained that the net slowed the ship's way, took to dumping his catch overboard when his back was turned. As the long voyage wore on, Huxley found that such setbacks, like the difficulty of peering through his microscope...
...taste of everything new in the field of U. S. medicine this spring, a doctor would have to shuttle between Manhattan, Chicago, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Rochester (Minn.), Boston, St. Louis, Detroit, Atlantic City. He would have to attend conventions of specialists as varied as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Urological Association, would have to visit state medical association meetings from Alabama to Wyoming. Practically all those meetings occur in the five-week period which began last week...