Word: egad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public property, began sending reporters into the lecture halls. When Surgeon John Abernethy complained that he was misquoted, the Lancet offered a devastating verbatim sample of his tutorial style: "I'll be hanged if erysipelas is not always a result of a disordered state of the digestive organs . . . Egad, it is a traveling disease . . If it be seated in an unimportant part, in the name of God let it go there!" Abernethy promptly slapped an injunction on the Lancet, and the magazine won a court decision that henceforth medical lectures were to be regarded as public property...