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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent years, the royal family has not shared Victoria's suspicion of homeopathy: twelve years ago the top-drawer job of physician to the King went to genial Homeopath Sir John Weir. Weir, a white-haired, white-mustached master of the jolly bedside manner, shares honors with Lord Horder and Sir Maurice Cassidy. But in practice, Weir has been the man who actually looked after George VI and his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors in the Palace | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Britain's famed Lord Horder, consulting physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who offered the most ambitious description of a doctor's mission. Medicine, said he, must write the prescription for a healthy state,* and "guide the politicians. ... It is the doctor's duty to protect the worker against excess fatigue, against dullness and against the various hazards of his job. . . . The doctor's work in the future will be more and more educational and less and less curative. . . . He will spend his time keeping the fit fit rather than trying to make the unfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Social Physicians | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...Lord Horder, a firm opponent of socialized medicine, attacked Britain's new National Health Service Act: "We had hoped that it would be through . . . evolution, rather than through the method of revolution that is now being adopted, that Government would help us to [improve medical care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Social Physicians | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Death came last week to the Colonial Secretary and Conservative Leader in the House of Lords, Baron Lloyd. Following a chill, he lay ill three weeks under the care of the King's physician, Lord Horder. Not until he died was it revealed that the 61-year-old Baron had flown repeatedly over Germany as a bomber navigator. A friend guessed that Lord Lloyd's death might have been hastened by an old infection from which Lloyd suffered during World War I while serving with Lawrence in Arabia. Prime Minister Winston Churchill named Brewery Scion Walter Edward Guinness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Moyne for Lloyd | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...questions. Winston Churchill's great prose and withering scorn calmed and delighted his people. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, announcing two new war loans, made the people proud by telling how they had subscribed $5,076,000,000 for the war effort in a year. Lord Horder allayed the people's concern about epidemics with announcement of steps to rid underground shelters of infectious pests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Anxious Ending | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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