Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to make themselves heard. One such faultfinder is Dr. W. Armistead Gills, U. S. N. retired. Dr. Gills has written two books-The Price of a Sailor's Life and Three Years Under the Hammer-to set forth what he considers gross ineptitude in the Navy health service. Not until last week, however, did his objections attain the resonance of front page headlines...
...Lions Club of York, Pa., was Dr. Gill's immediate audience last week as he flayed- ". . . The commissioning of recent graduates in medicine, attracted to the Naval Health Service by an assured stipend, a voiceless clientele, lack of competition and diagnosis backed by military rank...
...accomplishments of the Commission, acting in co-operation with the health departments of Massachusetts and Vermont, are two. A serum has been prepared from the spinal fluids of infected patients and made available to the local physicians. The serum is not an infallible cure, but it has been found ordinarily to be a remedy if administered during the three days interval between ingestion and actual paralysis. Second, Dr. Lloyd W. Aycock, head of the Commission, and a veteran warrior against the disease, has had explained through the press the very slight differences during the three day period between a heavy...
...research work of the Commission is carried on in the laboratories of the Harvard Medical School. Last summer, in addition to the laboratory studies, the Commission conducted an investigation in the field of the new cases reported to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in an effort to learn more of the cause and transmission of the disease, and gave skilled assistance to those afflicted. Dr. W. L. Aycock, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene at the Medical School, is head of the practicing end of the Commission, and is leading the fight against the present epidemic...
...members gather. A representative actor reads Booth's dedication speech, which ends close to the stroke of midnight. At that stroke Walter Oettel, Booth's dresser in the theatre, now the superintendent of the club, passes a cup in which the members drink the health of this hale old tradition...