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...Maternal Health Association's new "Fertility Clinic"-a project of Cleveland's famed Brush Foundation which brings together previously scattered services-an internist, endocrinologist, urologist, gynecologist, nutritionist and psychiatrist have joined in a many-sided attack on the problem. To the young married couples who come to the clinic, they give thorough physical and mental examinations, prescribe special diets and hygiene rules. Sometimes they use surgery and drugs. Hormones may help, but endocrinologists have found no support for the idea that the "male hormone" (testosterone) increases fertility...
Some 400 grinning natives greeted the three Washington specialists (a nose-&-throat man, an internist, a dentist). They had arrived in the Pribilof Islands, north of the Aleutians, for a quick checkup on the health of the seal hunters, who are wards of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The doctors found the Aleuts in generally excellent health. But they were shocked when Aleut children opened their mouths. Their teeth were bad (the dentist promptly took samples of their drinking water for analysis). Their tonsils were worse...
...Walter C. Alvarez, a famed internist at the Mayo Clinic - a tall, twinkly, immensely popular physician with a hard-boiled attitude toward illness - last week wrote a prescription for one of the prime problems of wartime medicine, too few doctors with too many civilian patients. The prescription offered by Dr. Alvarez in the A.M. A. Journal: dispose of patients faster by abler diagnosis. Its two chief ingredients: 1) distinguish between the really sick and the chronic complainers; 2) use a few. shrewd questions, which often yield a better diagnosis than elaborate laboratory tests...
...Parran Jr. of the U. S. Public Health Service, Chairman Gary Travers Grayson of the Red Cross, and the President's Personal Physician Ross Mclntire; 3) ten private practitioners, including Otologist Samuel Joseph Kopetzky of the New York State Medical Society, Surgeon Hugh Cabot of the Mayo Clinic, Internist Soma Weiss of Harvard, Internist John Punnett Peters of Yale, Syphilographer John Hinchman Stokes of the University of Pennsylvania, Surgeon Robert Bayley Osgood of Harvard...
...time that John Pierpont Morgan was a sick man. Two weeks before he had suffered a mild heart attack and a severe attack of neuritis while visiting his late wife's sister, Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby, whose home is near Prides Crossing. Dr. George Parkham Denny, Bostor internist, had pulled Mr. Morgan through the heart attack, had started him toward recovery from the neuritis which had so weakened the muscles of his legs that they had to be spared the weight of his 200 pounds...