Word: osiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seats and enjoy the smooth, gliding ride, only a few oldtimers sighed for the cumbersome elegance of the tortugas in their heyday. Then the streetcars were used for fashionable funerals, and the wife of Dictator Porfirio Díaz had her own private streetcar, furnished with silk curtains, revolving osier seats, spittoons and magazine racks...
...clock. By then the doctors agreed that her first trouble had been a simple, psychogenic stomachache, but it had snowballed until every problem in her life brought gastrointestinal distress. She became a hopeless hypochondriac, obsessed with her mentally tangled intestines, incurably ill with what the late great Sir William Osier, who was not given to psychiatric terminology, called "bowels on the brain...
...longtime Baltimore favorite. A Johns Hopkins tradition attributes the following informal prescription to the great Dr. William Osier: 1) hang a hat on the bedpost, 2) go to bed and drink rock-and-rye until there are two hats on the bedpost...
Died. Dr. George Dock, 91, famed pathologist and associate of the late great Sir William Osier; of a heart attack; in Altadena, Calif. One of the first full-time professors of medicine in the U.S. (at St. Louis' Washington University), he published the first successful diagnosis of coronary thrombosis, wrote scores of wryly humorous papers on a wide variety of medical subjects (typical Dock title: The Advantage of Using Potassium Iodide Until We Have Something Better...
Under Daniel Coit Oilman, Hopkins' first president (1876-1901), the university grew mightily. Lord Kelvin, Lord Bryce and William James were among its distinguished lecturers, Woodrow Wilson and Philosopher Josiah Royce among those who worked for its Ph.D. The medical school, with its famous four-Sir William Osier, William H. Welch, William S. Halsted and Howard A. Kelly-was for years the best in the U.S. Other campuses followed the Hopkins in emphasizing advanced research. Even Harvard's imperious Charles W. Eliot had to concede that "the graduate school of Harvard University . . . did not thrive until the example...