Word: medicaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dr. Harold Milton Trusler and colleagues performed an autopsy to find out why the child had died under such "ideal" medical conditions. They saw that the baby's tissues were "tremendously waterlogged," her blood so dilute that it could not clot. The classic treatment for burns, they decided was...
The little, in-page book was written by Dr. Arthur Marston Stimson, medical director of the Public Health Service. Designer was young Robert Brouse Thorpe Schmuck, who inserted graphic photographs of malaria victims, battered privies (see cut), rotting carcasses of animals.
Of the cause & cure of cancer, rheumatism, influenza, the common cold, a score of other diseases, doctors know practically nothing. But there are boundaries to medical ignorance: and from time to time doctors map the little they do know. Last week appeared a convenient manual of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) which...
Frequently in these cataclysmic collisions penetrating radiations of various types are emitted. These radiations may be used in medical and biological research, while the newly formed radioactive atoms may serve as labels to trace biological or chemical processes within plants or animals without disturbing the normal conditions of behavior.
As for the literary quality of medical writing, Sir Robert continued, "Many papers on medical psychology, biochemistry or iatromathematical [medico-mathematical] subjects might . . . just as well be written in Chinese. . . . American medical literature . . . exhibits only too often an absence of any sense of style or even of grammar. . . . We are...