Word: orals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handsome, amiable, deep-voiced Hero Hartman was born in Victoria, B. C. in, 1893, graduated from Northwestern University Dental School at 20, practiced in Seattle, went to France with the A.E.F., is now head of the Department of Operative Dentistry in Columbia's School of Dental & Oral Surgery. For 18 years of his battle against pain he experimented along the conventional, unsatisfactory lines of blocking tooth nerves or deadening them by narcotic injections. Two years ago he discovered a new substance in dentine, the bonelike matter underlying tooth enamel. Working on a new theory of pain, he developed...
...habits, Dr. James Hardin Wall of White Plains, N. Y. concluded after finding that a goodly number of drunks in his charge had been pampered, spoiled, overprotected in childhood. As adults "they loved to talk, were fond of singing and were inveterate users of tobacco, indicating rather strong oral cravings and demands for satisfaction." They enjoyed male drinking companions. They were only 18 years on the average when they started drinking, drank up to a quart a day. They had "a craving for the blissful state of infantile omnipotence which drinking induced." Treatment: physical rest, increased nutrition, occupational therapy...
...admen made the U. S. public halitosis-conscious. Since then newspaper and magazine advertising pages have been smeared with warnings of strange afflictions discovered by copywriters. Last week Printers' Ink counted up 93, of which 63 directly concern the human body. Nineteen afflict the skin, 13 concern the oral cavity, eight visit the digestive tract. Counting five bad-breath plagues included in the oral category, twelve have to do with nasty smells...
...crooks in this way. He puts squarely upon the shoulders of all plastic surgeons the burden of discovering whether or not their patients are law breakers. Perturbed, Commissioner Lewis Valentine of New York City's police department last week summoned the president of the American Society of Oral & Plastic Surgeons, Dr. Joseph Eastman Sheehan, to tell the force what was possible...
...students of human character who support the theory that a man's true personality is revealed only under the influence of liquor. Be the student gifted with superior powers of deduction, however, he may draw interesting conclusions from the actions of men under great stress, as, for instance, in oral examinations...