Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called Old Guard in the profession of medicine believes that medicine should continue to be shrouded in the mystery of the Dark Ages; and that the layman has no business knowing what it is all about. If the doctor hands a patient a prescription written in the best medical Latin, it is the duty of aforesaid patient to hotfoot it to the closest apothecary shop: have same duly compounded as the Great Man has ordained; and take T.I.D. [ter in die, "thrice a day"] strictly according to directions. Not his to reason why. His but to get well if Mother...
...supplied more headlines by paying off a cab at a Chicago pier and walking into the night. Behind he left a blood-stained coat and a suicide note: "I left home because I was so miserably unhappy over losing Louise ... I suppose she is better off married to that doctor ... I know what I am doing...
...those signs of acceptance, respectability and achievement emboldened the composite ego of the 1,500 osteopaths who attended the Cleveland convention. President George J. Conley, 64, of Kansas City, who is a doctor of medicine as well as of osteopathy, declared: "The allopathic school of medicine is appropriating the grosser aspects of the osteopathic concepts and is unfairly exploiting them without due credit, as originating in their own minds, under the names of 'body mechanics,' 'applied physiology,' 'postural abnormalities...
Thorburn, 47, Manhattan ear-throat-nose specialist, is more cocky about osteopathy. A doctor of medicine, he once declined the invitation of a medical school to establish a full course in osteopathy, because the medical school refused to require six years for the osteopathy course. To the Cleveland convention he promised lots of publicity for osteopaths: "What osteopathy requires is the presentation of proper information to newspapers and magazines, and otherwise, and one of the most important steps in securing this is a personal understanding of osteopathy on the part of editors of newspapers and magazines. When this same knowledge...
...Sidney Atwood, president of Chatham's Church Association, with Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Buck (oysters). To the left beams Mrs. George Eldredge, association vice president. Just beneath Christ are Chatham's oldest inhabitant, 94-year-old Captain Sam Harding, and Dr. Northing, with arms folded. Behind the doctor are three Coast Guard captains. Next to Captain Harding are his son Lawyer Herman Harding, Mrs. Harding (president of the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs) and their daughter Virginia. Above Christ are Joe Eldredge (garage) & family. Left of the Eldredges are aged Mr. & Mrs. Renfrew Edwards, to the right...