Word: medicos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased medico was Captain Harry George Armstrong. 36, director of the Army Air Corps' Physiological Research Laboratory at Dayton. A married man with two children, he enjoys flying but is not a pilot. Long aware of the importance of parachuting, he made his jump as a precise laboratory experiment to uncover the basic facts of the matter. Last fortnight he published his findings, well substantiated by witnesses and figures, in the American Medical Association Journal. Excerpts...
...pathology, became director of the Bellevue Hospital laboratories, was appointed Chief Medical Examiner by Mayor Hylan in 1918. He battled for pure food laws, fought against quack doctors, Prohibition, insanitary restaurants, pronounced on many a suicide and murder that perplexed police, made his name and detective work known in medico-legal circles the world over. Underpaid ($6,890 per year), he footed bills for equipment and technician's salary from his own pocket, twice threatened to resign, was persuaded to reconsider. He called the morgue the "Country Club...
...diseases discovered by the medico-advertising departments of U. S. business (TIME, May 27) - Brand Habit, the insidiousness of which is explained by those good souls who torture the air waves on behalf of Kentucky Winners cigarets...
...eminent scientists in Sweden" referred to by the Reynolds Co. were Erik Lundberg and Stina Thyselius-Lundberg, medical experimentalists of the Royal Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute in Stockholm. They wanted to know whether a diabetic might smoke, and, if so, how much. In the experiments on healthy and diabetic subjects, they used Camel cigarets. As a scientific "control" the Lundbergs also used German denicotinized cigar-cigarets called Bad Toltz. Nicotine either in smoke or as a straight drug, as the Lundbergs found and other investigators already knew, stimulated the adrenal glands. The stimulated adrenals exuded adrenaline which released sugar, which...
...Notable among them was Dr. Arthur Torranee, a small, high-pressure preacher-medico-explorer-publicist who travels under auspices of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. †Because statutes of limitations kept her from action in California, she sued in New York...