Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Johns Hopkins, where he directs the School of Hygiene and Public Health, "promoted" him. The university had received $200,000 from the General Education Board for a chair of medical history, the first in the U. S. Few men are capable of this professorship. The average doctor learns piecemeal and verbally the Aeschulapian tradition and is little tempted to write on the history of his profession, although such writing should be comparatively easy. As Dr. Welch said last week: "There always has been but one goal in medicine, the prevention and cure of disease. That gives a unity...
Died. Roscoe Brunner, until recently Chairman of the great chemical firm of Brunner Mond & Co.; at Green Cottage, Roehampton, Eng., country house of his son-in-law Prince Ferdinand of Liechtentein; after murdering his own wife and then shooting himself. Allegedly the cause of this murder-suicide was ill health aggravated by business worries...
Cleveland schools experimented with quartz windows (TIME, Oct. 18) with good effect upon the health of favored pupils as compared to those of schools where windows were of glass...
First they dedicated a new million-dollar School of Hygiene and Public Health with words of appreciation for the co-operation of the John D. Rockefellers, father and son. The presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray of Baltimore, pronounced the invocation. Dr. Andrew Balfour, head of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, had come across the Atlantic to speak...
...property under the fact for confiscating the estates of certain persons called absentees," and an agent was appointed for its care and management. Royall complained bitterly of this interference, declaring that he fully intended to return to New England, and he was prevented from doing so only by ill health...