Word: martin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leon Herbert Martin, public health director at Fort Worth, en couraged doctors by reporting success with a serum treatment for infantile paralysis. The treatment consisted of injecting serum from a patient recently recovered from the disease into the bloodstream of a new case. In five cases treated, paralysis was stopped. But, because paralysis may develop long after a patient seems cured, the certainty of Dr. Martin's serum treatment cannot be yet affirmed...
...even probably harmful. After-treatment is of the greatest importance. If properly treated, deformities may, to a large extent, be prevented. During the acute stage, massage and exercise should not be resorted to, but the paralyzed part kept in its normal position through splints. To such orthodox treatment, Dr. Martin's serum is an experimental adjunct...
...Roosevelt, on behalf of hiss fellow trustees on this Foundation (George Foster Peabody of Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Henry Pope of Chicago; James T. Whitehead of Detroit; Herbert N. Straus of Manhattan) invited Public Health Director Martin to take ten of the Fort Worth patients to Warm Springs for free treatment until each patient should be improved, "even if it takes three or four years...
London despatches quoted Dr. S. Parkes Cadman as saying in St. Martin's Church, London: ". . . As for fundamentalism, I read the Bible like I eat fish-leave the bones and eat the flesh." Substituting "like" for "as" as a conjunction is a provincialism deprecated in good grammatical usage...
Miss McCormic has signed a contract with the National Opera until next April; Mr. Martin will remain for two months. Both had previously attracted attention by their performances in the Opera Comique...