Word: neurologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editorship of the Dispensatory has been in the hands of one family since the first volume appeared in 1833. First editor was Dr. George Bacon Wood (1797-1879)> Philadelphia Quaker, physician and pharmacologist. Next came Dr. Horatio Charles Wood (1841-1920), his Quaker nephew, a pharmacologist and neurologist. His Presbyterian grandnephew, the present Dr. Horatio Charles Wood, then took over the job. Last week, when he stacked the first Dispensatory on his desk beside the last, Pharmacologist Wood was looking at a proud scientific family monument...
...Lawrence Frank (''Larry") Moore of Oakland. Calif., whose $500,000 crematory and columbarium were designed by Julia Morgan. Founder of the Cremation Association of America and the man whom Mr. Moore salutes as "the leader of the philosophical cremation movement." is Dr. Hugo Erichsen of Detroit, onetime neurologist, one-time medical director of Burroughs Adding Machine Co. Competition forced Dr. Erichsen to close his crematory in 1929. He still writes campaign material for the trade...
Died. Dr. William McDonald, 63, neurologist who treated Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1925-26) for infantile paralysis at his farm in North Marion, Mass.; after long illness; in Marion. Under his direction Mr. Roosevelt learned to walk on a specially constructed gangplank by supporting himself on its handrails...
...Manhattan medicine, Dr. Bernard Sachs, 78, longtime professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University. Years ago, a Manhattan legend goes, when Professor Sachs called upon patients, his footman would accompany him to the bedside, hold his high hat during examination of the patient. At last week's meeting Neurologist Sachs rose to charge: "Psychoanalysis more often prolongs and engenders mental disorder than it cures it. No person who has undergone the treatment can ever be entirely normal mentally again. It is a disruptive and not a constructive mechanism. Dr. Brill, I want you to keep your hands...
Divorced. Dr. Richard Horace Hoffmann. Manhattan neurologist; by Janet Beecher, cinemactress (The President Vanishes, The Mighty Barnum); in Los Angeles. Separated from her husband for ten years, Miss Beecher told the judge she delayed the divorce so that her son, now 14, would "be old enough to know what was happening and also to indicate preference, if he cared, as to which parent he wished to remain with." Son Richard was awarded to his mother with the option of summering with his father...