Word: harvey
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Psalms for Courage. It was just such bold medical pioneering in a pioneer land that led to the specialized medical art of gynecology, says British Author Harvey Graham in Eternal Eve (Doubleday; $10). Caesarean section itself,* performed on dead or dying women, was already as old as the Pyramids. The first known Caesarean which did not kill the mother was done in 1500 by Jacob Nufer, a Swiss sow-gelder, on his own wife. In the three centuries after Nufer, European doctors tried rarely (and usually with fatal results) the operation which Dr. Bennett dared and did so well...
Doctor or Witch-Doctor. Oddly enough, the author who has put these incidents in perspective in a monumental (700-page) history of gynecology and obstetrics is no specialist in the field, but a medical journalist. Isaac Harvey Flack won a 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...
...Harvey Leve, freshman coach and heir apparent to the head coach position when Bolles moves to the Athletic Director's office, got into the first shell and took the crew for a rigorous pull 2 1/2 miles downstream and piloted them back upstream...
...Bolles, master of Crimson crew fortunes since 1937, will definitely leave his position as coach following the Yale race the CRIMSON has learned. Bolles, who assumes his new office as Director of Athletics on July 1, will be replaced by his protege, Harvey Love...
Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics; Harvey Brooks, professor of Applied Science; Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English; Williard V. Quine, professor of Philosophy; Burrhus F. Skinner, professor of Psychology; John C. Snyder, professor of Microbiology; Edger S. Wilson Jr., professor of Chemistry...