Word: osier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coughs Dr. Hamburger praises paregoric, an old derivative of opium which children's specialists now say is dangerous. According to Dr. Hamburger, "Paregoric . . . was what [Johns Hopkins'] Dr. Osier took when he himself was ill with broncho-pneumonia." Habitual constipation, "excluding diseases of the intestines and adjacent structures," Dr. Hamburger declared "is usually an ill-conditioned reflex, often associated with the abuse of purgative drugs. Most of these patients can be cured by explaining how the mechanism of defecation has been deranged and by reconditioning them by persistent daily attempts at a fixed hour to move the bowels...
...maintains a mortuary book in which he enters the names of eminent friends when they die. Among the 300 names already inscribed are Thomas Alva Edison, William Howard Taft, General William Crawford Gorgas, General George Washington Goethals, Sir William Osier...
WOODROW WILSON - Edith Gittings Reid - Oxford Press ($3.50). A friend's-eye-view by an old acquaintance, author of a popular biography of Sir William Osier, The Great Physician...
Many people accept cures and stigmata t their face value, as mystic phenomena, 'hat the scars and blood exist is well attested. The late Sir William Osier called stigmata, in general, manifestations of hysteria, probably produced by autosuggestion. The Roman Catholic Church takes no official position at all during the lifetime of a stigmatic, conducts exhaustive inquiries afterwards. Last November steps were taken to discourage pilgrimages to Therese Neumann, as was done with similar European cases (TIME...
...Sigerist's job will be distinctly a full-time one. He will have the facilities of the Welch Medical Library, which was established with the institute and now has some 100,000 volumes, including the collection of the late great William Osier and a first edition of William Harvey's treatise on the circulation of the blood (1628). The librarian is Dr. Fielding Hudson Garrison...