Word: medicator
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...squatted in their foxholes, now filled with icy water, and waited. Occasionally they tossed hand grenades. The wounded lay quietly, or mumbled "Medic." No supplies or food could be brought across the river, no wounded could be moved back...
Suddenly a soldier ran around a corner of the house. He went away but was soon back with a young medic, who threw off his pack, mixed some powder and liquid, poured it into a glass and held the glass to my lips. He gave me another shot of morphine and carried me to the front of the house and laid me under a grapevine a few yards down the road. Out of a large cylinder he took two bottles. One held powder, the other liquid. He mixed the two in a bottle, which he hung to the grape arbor...
...doctors were outlawed by male colleagues, and druggists refused to fill their prescriptions. When their patients died a few were even mobbed. Today there are almost 200,000 men doctors in the U. S., only 7,500 women doctors. It is still very difficult for a woman to enter medical school, or for a "hen medic" to get hospital and university connections. Yet in spite of their handicaps, a number of women doctors in the U. S. have made remarkable contributions to the progress of medicine...
Reason for the farmer's plight is not, as TIME seems to imply, failure to put a duty on Brazil's babassu nut. Prime reason is compulsory pasteurization of milk in all major markets. Familiar is everyone with the cry of the orthodox medic that pasteurization kills disease bacteria which might be present in milk. Unfamiliar is the average person with the fact that lactic acid-producing bacteria normally present in milk are likewise killed, retarding souring, making milk a semi-perishable which may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow, average city...
...wondering if the studios are going to continue to thrill the public with inside stories of the medical profession. You know, we do have pride, and to see ourselves so carelessly portrayed is somewhat disconcerting. Fortunately, the vast majority are as ignorant as the directors. In [the cinema] Men in White, particularly, there are several outstanding mistakes. First of all, in doing intravenous work it is of paramount necessity that the tourniquet be removed -a little item Dr. Gable forgot; secondly, a surgeon never operates on an unanesthetized person, as was the case in this picture-evidenced by the perfectly...