Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copeland did not become a New Yorker until 1908 when he was 40. At that time he was an eye & ear doctor and he got a job with New York Flower Hospital Medical College. Soon he began to have Democratic leanings and was on good terms with Hearst for whose newspapers he wrote popular health treatises. John F. Hylan, a Tammany mayor who was the darling of Hearst, made him city health commissioner. In 1922 when Al Smith was running for Governor, a piece of good fortune fell into the doctor's lap. Since Smith refused to have Hearst...
...fine Iowa morning last week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...
...Nancy Hale, "The Blue-Muslin Sepulchre," which originally appeared in Scribner's. This story, a telling blow of fiction in Dr. Parran's war, describes the tragedy of a respectable family of two frail daughters and their mother who are kept in ignorance by the family doctor of the father's syphilis...
Illinois a fortnight ago responded to the anti-syphilis drive by forbidding marriage unless both the man and the woman produced a doctor's certificate that they were free from both syphilis and gonorrhea (TIME, July 12). Several other States have bills of the same purport in their legislatures. Last week the young editors of the genteel Ladies' Home Journal, Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Gould, published a syphilis article by Paul de Kruif & Dr. Parran...
...These findings," said this doctor of medicine who was converted when an osteopath cured him of colitis, "check with the fact that minor accidents are a common cause of sterility in women. Hunting field accidents frequently lead to subsequent sterility. The spine is liable to become twisted when women ride sidesaddle. In badminton and tennis, it is very easy to produce an osteopathic lesion. A badly done swallow [U. S.: swan] dive may have similar results. Overindulgence in sports and the craze for speed are in a general way favorable to barrenness. . . . Quite frequently a patient consults an osteopath...