Word: obstetricians
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Died. Dr. Emil Fronz, 70, Viennese obstetrician who assisted at the birth of 70 imperial Austrian offspring; in Vienna...
...Boston society is the third oldest scientific museum in the U. S.* In 1830, a group of people who liked birds and fish met in Boston at the home of Dr. Walter Channing, obstetrician, to plan a museum. Seven years prior, the Linnean Society of New England had broken up, giving the natural history exhibits which it had collected for nine years to Harvard College, which gladly passed the collection to the new museum...
...also flayed Dr. Edward Joseph Ill, "personal friend and neighbor of Dr. Rusby for a great many years," "honest and well meaning" Newark, N. J., obstetrician. Dr. Ill, in the name of the Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Abdominal Surgeons, supported the Ambruster-Rusby denunciations of commercial ergot preparations...
...generations has a potential heir to the throne been born north of the Tweed. The British postoffice, guardian of Britain's telephones, prepared a special wire from Glamis castle to the Royal Yacht Squadron (not "club") at Cowes to carry first word to King George. That able obstetrician Sir Henry Simson and the Duchess of York's dour Scotch nurse were ready and waiting. Newsagencies round the world kept their ears cocked, cables ready. All these preparations were for a Boy. If the Duchess' widely-heralded child should be a second girl, that would be interesting family news...
With great ado he summoned the four parents and their disputed infants before a "court." Benched together were a criminologist, an anthropologist, a dermatologist, an ophthalmologist, a psychiatrist, an obstetrician, a pediatrist, a pathologist. The scientists inspected parents and progeny minutely. Mr. Watkins, a traffic-manager, scrutinized the boy whom the Bambergers' possessed, suddenly cried: "His hair is turning red. He's mine. My baby by my first wife has red hair." The "court" ordered him to hush, retired for the day to write out their individual decisions...