Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale's Professor of Medicine John Punnett Peters asking that the Federal Government subsidize medical schools, hospitals, research institutions, and pay the hospital and doctor bills of the poor...
...spokesman for the majority of the A. M. A.'s 110,000 doctor-members, Dr. Morris Fishbein, arguing that "Every one should have good medical service. But we insist that the practice of medicine is a doctor's problem. The doctor is the only one entitled by training, by experience, and by law to take care of the sick. Medicine is still a profession. It must never become a business or a trade, never the subservient tool of a governmental bureaucracy...
Years later, on his deathbed, one of the students confessed the substitution and willed Haydn's real skull to a friend who passed it on to a well-known Viennese doctor. Eventually it wound up in the possession of the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music, who placed it on exhibition in 1895. Meanwhile, the heirs of Prince Esterhazy, Haydn's friend and patron, had built a magnificent mausoleum in Eisenstadt for Haydn's remains, but refused to have them buried in it without his head. For many years legal complications have held up Haydn...
Fifty years ago there was one office for University hygiene and one doctor, Dr. Bailey. In 1902 Stillman Infirmary was opened, with Dr. Bailey also in charge of that. he continued as head of Stillman until 1924, although during the interim there were three heads of Hygiene. First was Dr. Nichols, Boston surgeon, who first saw the need of physical care for athletes and established the football doctor...
Last week a more scholarly doctor pulled just as startling a medication as hydrochloric acid out of his sick-rooms, popped it before the medical profession for all comers to examine and criticize. Dr. Denis Eugene St. Jacques, professor of history of medicine in the University of Montreal, claims to cure patients of boils, erysipelas, gonococcic infections, rheumatism, tonsillitis, peritonitis, childbed fever, pneumonia, inflammation of gallbladder, shingles-by injecting finely powdered charcoal into their veins...