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Charles Dickens afflicted his characters with a bizarre variety of diseases. What is surprising, says London Neurologist Sir Russell Brain in last week's British Medi cal Journal, is that Dickens did so with impressive clinical accuracy.* When doctors were just beginning to evaluate physical symptoms and other authors were using vague terms like "brain fever," Dickens "looked on disease with the ob serving eye of the expert clinician ... so that he often gives us accounts that would do credit to the trained physician." Samples...
Ochsner's bullpen clinics made the impression that he wanted. That was in 1927. Now some 3,000 physicians, graduated from his surgery classes, are practicing in Louisiana and neighboring states. He has done much to boost the level of medi calpractice throughout the Deep South, and thus fortified a great Tulane tradition. For its chair of surgery is the most noted south of St. Louis and one of the most influential...
Today, although a few chiropodists practice in barbershops, chiropody is a highly respectable handmaiden of medi cine, requiring two years of college training, three or four years in one of six approved schools. Chiropodists like to be known as podiatrists because, to their horror, they are often confused with chiropractors...
Heads buzzing with these contrary medi cal opinions, the CAA fathers took the delicate question under advisement...
...Long "captured" the hospital, discharged an experienced director, and put in charge Dr. Arthur Vidrine, 31, a promising graduate of Tulane University who had done post-graduate work in surgery in London, Oxford and Paris hospitals, as well as in Charity Hospital where Tulane and University of Louisiana medi-cal students all get their preliminary practice. In Dr. Vidrine's particular favor for this important post was the fact that he had learned something of business management from his father, a wealthy Evangeline County planter and an early financial friend of Huey Long...