Word: galen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fighting for existence against White Russian Generals Kolchak and Wrangel, the spirit and energy of Comrade Vassili Constantinovitch Blücher four times won him the highest Soviet military decoration, "The Red Banner." Five years later the Soviet Government sent Comrade Blücher to Canton under the alias "General Galen." There he became military adviser to the Chinese revolutionaries who subsequently conquered all China and now constitute the Chinese Government headed by President Chiang Kaishek...
...their mouths to prevent foul breath contaminating the entrails of patients. Many surgeons realize the "why" of their precautions; most take their procedure for granted. Lister to them, as to the vast majority of their patients, is now-except for a mild centennial-only a name, a Hippocrates, a Galen, a little revered Esculapius...
...Died. Galen Luther Stone, 64, associate founder (with Charles Hayden) of Hayden, Stone & Co. (investments), of Boston and Manhattan; in Brookline, Mass., of heart disease. Financial editor of the Boston Advertiser in his 20's, he became apprentice, to acquire practical experience, in a brokerage firm; met Charles Hayden, 20-year-old ticker-boy-graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; with him founded Hayden, Stone & Co. (of late $30,000,000 working capital), to which, say financiers, the greatest group of copper producing companies in the world owes its existence. Vessels of the Eastern...
...GALEN E. BUSH...
Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), English, taught doctors to study the patient instead of wrangling about what Hippocrates and Galen might have meant in their writings...