Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture in former President Herbert Hoover's cabinet, is president of the University. Doctor Jardine was formerly president of Kansas State Agricultural College and served as U. S. minister to Egypt. His daughter, Ruth, attends the University of Wichita...
...Hartman. A few hours after giving birth to a girl in City Hospital, Mrs. Hartman, 33, had dressed, visited friends, then gone to her home in suburban Roxbury. Nurses found the infant lying alone in Mrs. Hartman's hospital bed. No mania impelled her, the mother averred when doctor and policeman reached her. She felt well; she had work to do at home; she was going to do it; the hospital, she knew, would look after the baby and bring it to her in good time; as for bad after-effects to herself...
...other end of the line told her to do. After eight minutes of this Mrs. Nelson cried that she had borne a son and started to hang up. A neighbor, however, snatched the receiver, yelled over the phone: "She's going to have a twin." The doctor: "Let me talk to Mrs. Nelson again." For five more minutes Mrs. Nelson followed telephoned directions, bore her second son, sighed. "Thank you, doctor," and hung...
Cuts, bruises and broken bones make up a large part of an ordinary doctor's practice. But an ordinary doctor does not know much more than his mother or Boy Scout leader taught him about such minor surgery. Medical schools pay little attention to the subject, medical journals less, medical conventions practically none at all. This gap in a doctor's education made the president of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool of Manhattan, complain recently. Partly because of Dr. Pool's complaint, mainly because he has a fine, two-fingered feel for medical...
Fond as Hetty was of Son Ned, she was too stingy to call in a doctor when he was injured in a childhood coasting accident and one leg eventually had to be amputated. Ned was schooled at Fordham College and in real-estate law in Manhattan and Chicago before Hetty sent him to Texas at 24 to see what he could do with himself...