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...this one, directed now at the Cossacks whom the Tsar sent to drive the people of Tersk out of their village. The situation is presented less consciously and vehemently than in The New Babylon (see above). Good shots: the illiterate Chechens signing a document by pressing it with thumbs first rubbed on a sooty pot; a crowd of people on a mountain road; villagers squatting with bowed heads in the road as they await a charge by cavalry...
...leadership of Dr. Frederick Madison Allen, 50, who as a Rockefeller Institute man introduced fasting or undernutrition as a treatment of diabetes, a new kind of specializing hospital is developing in the U. S.-physiatric hospitals. All general hospitals of course treat the metabolic disorders. Dr. Allen was the first to set up a special shop, the Physiatric Institute, in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's onetime mansion at Morristown, N. J. That was in 1920. Since then two of his pupils have branched off-Frederick S. Modern, 32, at Arrowhead Springs, San Bernardino County, Calif. (1926) and James Winn...
Last week Dr. Allen opened a physiatric hospital in Manhattan-its first...
Lawyers in framing punitive statutes based them on the medical knowledge of the period in which they were framed. Medical men are constantly revising their theories and opinions and "since the law cannot change with the same flexibility, doctors must first agree among themselves and then explain themselves to the lawyers," if they want to correct and cure incorrigibles.-Dr. David Kennedy Henderson, University of Glasgow...
...Pete was the first and only legitimate child of his mother Mabel, an Ojibway Indian girl of northern Michigan. Later he had a sister and two brothers. When Mabel's husband deserted her, she was glad that she would no longer be beaten, then wondered how she would support her baby. For a while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola...