Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless a U. S. doctor is seldom prosecuted for performing a "criminal operation." He can generally claim that he did it to preserve the life or health of the woman, a legal obligation of his profession. After a search of Federal and state laws, Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic...
...tells the story of his life to an old author who believes he is the young man best fitted to meet life and wants to write a book around him. Andy begins with his first childish recollections, which are handled intelligently by the author. Dr. Ross is a country doctor and an extraordinarily understanding father, while his wife is devoted to them both but has all the maternal worries that tradition ascribes to mothers...
With broad-shouldered Planter Ames, a patriarchal figure in mustard corduroy, at the head of the procession, the championship week began with a fast heat by Yankee Doodle Jack, and a hot favorite, the orange-spotted pointer, Doctor Blue Willing. The latter stayed in hand better than on two other championship occasions and, as a local sports writer put it, "he handled his birds like a Ziegfeld beauty handles a millionaire." Tips Manitoba Jake, the big, white-&-black pointer owned by Golfer Glenna Collett Vare (see p. 27), ran the next heat worthy of notice. He, too, had the morning...
President Conant has been awarded an honorary degree of doctor of laws by the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, which will be presented at the commencement exercise of the College this spring...
...license to practice. What he needs above all is a hospital for his trusting charges, and it is the miraculous birth that comes as a providential means of answering his prayer. There are surly villians, too, and problems of love, but are automatically overthrown and solved, respectively, in the doctor's hour of triumph. Then the quins frisk about for a while, and the picture draws to a happy close...