Word: neurologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have had to tight my way out, in a condition approaching frenzy. ..." When the student leaves the indubitable tact of claustrophobia's existence and begins to look for cause & cure, he finds himself adrift in theory. In a letter to the Times, Dr. Harry Campbell, veteran British neurologist, spoke for the older school when he declared that claustrophobia is simply the morbid expression of a universal animal instinct to avoid capture. Dr. W. Stephenson, University of London psychologist, tartly retorted through the Times that Dr. Campbell's theory was 'very inadequate. . . . Much more satisfactory is ... the current...
...Smith Ely Jelliffe, who had made one affidavit, was called to the stand. Benign, 66-year-old expert neurologist, his monograph on nervous and mental diseases written in collaboration with Dr. William A. White of Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital commands the highest respect of the medical profession. Also he has made considerable good money by testifying as an alienist in legal cases. He testified to the "mental irresponsibility" that saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair, to the "mental irresponsibility'' which saved Blanca de Saulles from the charge of killing her husband...
...Chemist Francis William Aston of Cambridge, England. Physicist Niels Bohr and Neurologist August Krogh of Copenhagen, Neurologist Archibald Vivian Hill of London. Chemist Theodor Svedberg of Upsala...
Others count themselves lucky merely to get occupation outside Hitler's jurisdiction. Last week Kurt Goldstein, Berlin neurologist, was in Switzerland. Ludwig Halberstaedter was in Palestine, where the American Jewish Physicians' Committee and Hadassah (women's Zionist organiza- tion) hope to build a hospital and medical school. German refugees would have staff opportunities with both. Bernhard Zondek, Berlin gynecologist who helped devise a positive test for pregnancy, has invitations from Stockholm and Leyden. Safely back in Manhattan, where he is a naturalized U. S. citizen, is Gustav Bucky, Berlin cancer specialist. Another able medical emigre in Manhattan...
Adjusting his quarter-inch spectacles and bending his good right eye toward a 29-page manuscript that had been nearly a year a-brewing, Dr. Howard Dixon Mclntyre, 41, Cincinnati neurologist, announced to the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine last week his observance of an entirely new type of encephalitis (sleeping sickness) which is currently epidemic in the Middle West. The new encephalitis, he reported, refused to fit into any of the categories of the disease already known, exhibited startling phases which he advised should force medical men to intensify their research into a disease about whose cause they know nothing...