Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old doctor named Carl Austin Weiss Jr. did it seemed fairly plain to local newshawks. Young Dr. Weiss, a Tulane Medical School graduate who practiced with his father in Baton Rouge, had married Miss Louise Yvonne Pavy. Mrs. Weiss was the daughter of Circuit Judge B. H. Pavy, a rabid anti-Longster in St. Landry Parish. One of the 39 bills up for passage by the Legislature was to gerrymander Judge Pavy's judicial district in such a way as to effect his ouster. Brooding darkly on this piece of petty politics, Carl Weiss apparently thought...
...instead of scientific research, would have made him a familiar character to newsreaders from coast to coast. After looking back on that career for more than a year, Dr. Carrel this week published a book into which he packed the essence of his experiences, philosophy and intuition as a doctor and as a man. He called it Man, the Unknown.* Its theme is that Science has itemized most of the facts of mankind but has never added them up into the total of man's huge potentialities...
...Chicago where he, with Dr. Charles Claude Guthrie, perfected the technique of transferring kidneys, ovaries, thyroids, legs from one dog to another. Upon that accomplishment Dr. Carrel sailed into the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan in 1906. Six years later the first Nobel Prize ever awarded to a U. S. doctor of medicine went to Alexis Carrel for his suturing of blood vessels and transplantation of organs...
There is more "professional" jealousy to the square inch in the practice of medicine than in any other vocation that I know of; all any doctor has to do is to announce some new and possibly better development in medicine or surgery and he will spend as much time dodging professional brickbats as he will in catching the few and far between bouquets from colleagues. I know this from sad experience, having had the temerity some years back of announcing a bigger and better operation for removal of the tonsils...
...Bill, but Patrick J. Hurley, onetime Secretary of War, had advised against it on the ground that A. G. & E. "might get the works if we appear." Mr. Hopson's lawyers in Manhattan also advised him not to go to Washington because at that time he was presenting a doctor's certificate saying he was too ill to appear before the New York Legislature's utility investigating committee in Albany...