Word: medicalization
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Limited in its experiments by the fact that animals are immune to yellow fever, the commission was forced to consider the theory of an eccentric Scottish medic history. who had an unsubstantiated notion that yellow fever was transmitted from human to human by mosquitoes. The commissioners tested Dr. Carlos Finlay's theory on themselves. Dr. Carroll caught yellow jack from one of the Finlay mosquitoes. Dr. Lazear died of it. Even then their experiments were scientifically incomplete. Dr. Reed called for four soldiers to volunteer as human guinea pigs. Two of them got bites from Finlay mosquitoes. The other...
...doctor's code of ethics has long insisted that important medic la discoveries should be kept free to benefit all people. Under the circumstances, it is surprising to find that an Associate Professor in the Harvard School of Public Health should have patented his contribution to the long history of respirator development. It is even more surprising that he should have seen fit to accept royalties for the monopoly of this lifesaving device, which he had transferred to Warren E. Collins, Inc. The transaction suggests a distinct flare for business in this Medical School teacher, inasmuch as he had done...
...Midwife!" They husked and found strength to roar again. "Licensed Honorary Midwife, Medic and Surgeon! Oh Edward, Edward! The great-grandson of Victoria a midwife!" Scandalized, such servitors as were present blushed a fitting and dignified reproof at these immoderate words...
...Rugby team to go east, as chosen by the committee, Olcott, Dott and Hutchinson, will probably consist of E. E. Beach, Bitner, Prettyman, list, Borden, Dott, and Killilea laws, forward; McNeil, lit, quarter-back; Gemmell, lit, and Moore, medic, half-back ; Olcott, lit, three-quarter back; and Gilmore, lit. goal keeper. The substitutes will very likely be Bonine, medic, and Wright, law. [Chronicle...