Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank P. Graham...
...Admissions Office added Graham R. Taylor '49 as Gummere's first full-time assistant, and Dana M. Cotton also began helping the office on a part-time basis. In addition other officials like Bender, von Stade, Monro, Dean Leighton, and Professors Lect and Menzel have aided Gum mere by making special trips to admissions "problem areas...
Next of the "backwoods obstetricians" to win Graham's praise was Ephraim McDowell of Danville, Ky. In 1809, he persuaded Jane Todd Crawford, 47 (and a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln), to travel 60 miles on horseback to his surgery, though she was very ill. Lacking anesthesia, Jane Crawford kept up her courage by repeating the Psalms while Dr. McDowell made surgical history with the first ovariotomy - and removed a 15-lh. ovarian cyst...
...license to practice medicine in Manchester when he was only 21. Soon he joined the staff of the British Medical Journal, which he now edits along with a popular journal for laymen, Family Doctor. To avoid any charge of self-advertisement, Flack uses the pen-name "Harvey Graham...
...Graham has a literary touch as deft as a surgeon's. "To call an obstetrician to an obstructed labor in a modern maternity hospital may seem very different from calling in a witch-doctor to primeval hut," he says. "The words and the rites . . . have become more specialized, as has the method of payment. The occasion, however, has not altered at all and for that matter the obstetrician has not much more idea than the shaman why that particular child should try to be born sideways...