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Word: medicaler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having read so much ridiculing Governor Dickinson of Michigan for his utterances, I am prompted to express my feelings. First, permit me to state that I am not a crusader or reformer. I am merely a medical practitioner in a college town of 4,500. It is of no special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Alligators, hippopotami and petrels all have muscle valves which close their nostrils when they enter water. Seals and polar bears can also pull in their ears. But man is "a terrestrial being," with no "musculature for closing the nostrils, and keeping water from the nasal cavities and their appurtenances." Thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tips for Terrestrials | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Civilian casualties from air raids present a gruesome but not a professionally difficult problem to medicine. Nowadays medical treatment for civilians in wartime is primarily a problem in organization, and to doctors air raids mean nothing more than a monstrous epidemic of chest, neck and skull wounds, of broken arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bombs and Bandages | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Until the Munich pact last fall, British doctors, like the Poles, gave little thought to the prospect of war. But immediately after Munich, Dr. John Henry Hebb of the Ministry of Health and President Colin D. Lindsay of the British Medical Association began working feverishly on medical A. R. P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bombs and Bandages | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

London has been divided into ten medical zones, each containing 20 first-aid stations and one large central hospital. As soon as a citizen is felled by steel scraps or toppling masonry, he will be carried to the nearest first-aid station, or picked up by one of the numerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bombs and Bandages | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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