Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taussig gives the following advice to doctors who find themselves called upon to perform therapeutic abortions: "Since the physician must in every case of abortion strive to keep his name clear of any suspicion of malpractice, it is naturally preferable for him to treat every patient with this condition in a hospital, where records are kept and the presence of nurse or interne prevents any possible efforts at blackmailing by unscrupulous persons. It is relatively easy for a man in city practice to carry this out, but in a very considerable number of cases handled in country or small town...
...great German family name in St. Louis is Taussig. Some are Gentiles, some Jews, some a mixture of both. Most eminent of the last are the doctor Brothers Taussig: Internist Albert Ernst, 64, a Unitarian; Gynecologist Frederick Joseph, 63, an Ethical Culturist. Like most male St. Louis Taussigs, both brothers went to Harvard for undergraduate education. They, and later Albert's two sons, returned to Washington University for medical training. Orphans of a wealthy Jewish banker-broker, reared by two spinster aunts, they lived well at school, got a running start in the practice of medicine...
Thirty-five-year-old Eugene Markley Landis, A.B., M.S., M.D., Ph.D., of Philadelphia is the brightest young U. S. doctor who came to the attention of the College of Physicians during the past year. Dr. Landis' specialty is measuring the flow of blood through the capillaries. To do that, he uses glass tubes one five-thousandth of an inch in diameter which he inserts into the tiny bores of capillaries. The manner in which capillary blood rises in those tubes has thrown a considerable light on how heart disease causes dropsy, how kidney diseases develop, how a bruised...
...Country Doctor (Twentieth Century-Fox). From the moment that Mrs. Oliva Dionne astounded the world on May 28, 1934 by giving birth to quintuplets, it was apparent that the children, if they lived, were destined for a career in the cinema. Already seasoned performers in shorts and newsreels, they make their debut as feature stars in The Country Doctor, which last week opened simultaneously in 326 U. S. and Canadian theatres. The story, suggested by Reporter Charles Blake of the Chicago American, is built around a character representing a romantic conception of the Quintuplets' Dr. Allan Dafoe. Twentieth Century...
...picture opens, Dr. John Luke (Jean Hersholt) and his faithful nurse (Dorothy Peterson) are battling a diphtheria epidemic under adverse circumstances. It is the dead of Canadian winter. Wires have broken down. The village of Moosetown is cut off from the world. There is almost no serum left. The doctor's nephew, summoned by one of the doctor's lumberman patients with a homemade radio, arrives by plane with...