Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pneumonia fund will be administered without constraint by Dr. William Hallock Park, professor since 1897 in New York University and director since 1894 of the New York Health Department Bureau of Laboratories. During the War A.E.F. medical officers esteemed highly the efficacious serums of this bureau and traveled miles to get them from supply depots. Dr. Park has characterized pneumonia as "probably about the worst disease we have left to conquer, aside from those which attack adults of comparatively advanced age. Pneumonia now kills more persons every year than tuberculosis. [The last thorough data (1923) gives the U. S. pneumonia...
...Chicago, the Tribune, big newspaper, did valuable work last week, as it did 13 years ago. It investigated the medical quacks, impostors, charlatans, "specialists," "old Docs," "health institutes" of the city, flayed them all and sundry, laid bare their foul and intricate inner workings. Chicago for a period was almost clean of these pseudo-medics, some of whom were regularly licensed physicians with debased practices. Many had been deprived of their onetime licenses for malpractice. Many were merely pornerastic laymen with a smattering of technical terminology. Of recent years they have been filtering back, spread-eagling their "specialties" on flamboyant...
...Medical Institute" of Chicago. These were one and the same firm, using the same office suite but with entrances on different streets to divert suspicion, an oldtime quack stunt. Old Doc Embry uses the same method?"Dr. Embry" on the door of a squalid office for Negroes, "The Parker Health Institute" on a communicating office door for whites. His gyp game is to thrill and mystify the patient by the intimated cure-all powers of the Xray. His staff found the Tribune man very ill, but curable for $90, $20 down...
...knows, the triumvirate at the head of the Liberal Party has long consisted of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith (official leader), Mr. Lloyd George (leader by popular consent) and Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, famed Jewish chemical industrialist, who served as Commissioner of Works and later as Minister of Health in Premier George's Cabinet...
...probably the first time important medical men attended such a dental meeting, thus prognosticating a closer integration of dental and medical knowledge. Dr. William D. Haggard, President of the American Medical Association, speaking on "Teamwork for the Health of the People," summed up: "Neglect your business if you must; neglect your golf game if you can; your wife if you dare; but do not neglect your yearly health examination...