Word: lahey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neurotics is just what Dr. Frank N. Allan, of Boston's Lahey Clinic, might call them-but he has an even more encouraging word for their disease. Four years ago he thought up a new category for people who can live with their jitters if they have to-"benign nervousness...
...discussing the high price of food and what he thought should be done to allay it. "Voluntary reduction of consumption," he said, "is the first step. We should eat less . . . eat less meat and eat less extravagantly." He went right on talking. The Chicago Daily News's Ed Lahey broke in, gave him a chance to get off the hook by asking: "Do you think that would cover the whole populace...
Alarmed by the problem of where vagotomy may eventually lead, two eminent authorities, Dr. Frank H. Lahey, head of Boston's famed Lahey Clinic, and Dr. Russell S. Boles, of the University of Pennsylvania, last week proposed a five-year moratorium on vagotomies to see how the current cases turn...
...patient. In six out of ten cases lobotomy seems to be successful. But one patient in ten is relaxed too much by the operation; three in ten remain tense. Psychiatrists recommend the operation only for otherwise incurable psychotics. But at the chief U.S. lobotomy centers-George Washington University Hospital, Lahey Clinic, Boston Psychopathic-surgeons are being swamped by demands for lobotomy by alcoholics, criminals, frustrated businessmen, unhappy housewives and people who are just nervous...
...Lahey charged that Army & Navy hospitals in the U.S. can hardly keep their personnel busy, while "in civilian hospitals, beds are 'hot,' and there is barely time to change the sheets between one patient and the next...