Word: otolaryngologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fever victim, who had injections for hay-fever last winter, was bundled off to the infirmary. When his sneezes showed no sign of letting up, alarmed school authorities sent him home to London. His parents called in, one after the other, two general practitioners, a hay-fever specialist, an otolaryngologist, a chiropractor and a hypnotist...
...Mclntire, an ophthalmologist and otolaryngologist whose specialty is sinus (Franklin Roosevelt's most nagging health problem), is a balding, relaxed Oregonian whose rosy face is younger than his 55 years. Every morning around 8:30 he parks his five-year-old Lincoln convertible in front of the White House, strolls into the Presidential bedroom, insinuates himself into the daily bedside bull session. Having done his morning chore, he becomes Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy and spends the rest of the day bossing his wartime staff of 140,000. Each afternoon, he checks up at the White House again...
Last week, steady and alert, the young man marched into a scientific meeting at the New York Academy of Medicine with some 50 patients of 48-year-old Otolaryngologist Julius Lempert. All had been cured of apparently hopeless deafness by an operation of hairbreadth delicacy, developed in Europe 15 years ago. Its name: "endaural fenestration...