Word: medicaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Two months ago a petty issue-appointment of a doctor named Adrian Martens to the Flemish Academy of Medicine-cut through Belgian politics like a hot knife through lard. Patriotic War Veterans objected to Dr. Martens' appointment on the grounds that he was 1) a mediocre medical man, 2...
A dignified blond man climbed to the witness stand in the Del Rio, Tex. court house, stroked his goatee with a white, diamond-starred hand and announced:"I am the man who originated the goat gland operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth...
John Richard Brinkley is a doctor by virtue of a degree from the defunct Eclectic Medical University in Kansas City, whence he was graduated 25 years ago. In 1917 he began furnishing impotent men with goat glands, and by 1933 when he discontinued the treatment (for simpler methods) he had...
From all over the U. S. men flocked to the gaudy Brinkley sanatorium at Milford, Kans. and in headphone days Dr. Brinkley began to operate a radio station called KFKB ("Kansas First, Kansas Best"). In 1930 the Kansas Medical Board revoked his medical license for "unprofessional conduct," and the Federal...
The main emphasis of his Holmes of the Breakfast-Table is on Holmes as a forerunner of the moderns-the cool-headed doctor who not only wrote a medical classic on puerperal fever, but occasionally, as in Elsie Venner, anticipated Freud; the science popularizer whose Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table...