Word: otologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grant Selfridge, 76-year-old otologist of San Francisco's Southern Pacific Hospital, is affectionately known to his colleagues as "Little God Damn." Reason: every time he meets a stubborn case of deafness he swears like a trooper. But last week spry, beaming Dr. Selfridge spoke words of honey as he told his colleagues of the San Francisco County Medical Society all about a new cure for deafness...
...finances out of Saturday Evening Post profits; 2) the Nation's official doctors-Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr. of the U. S. Public Health Service, Chairman Gary Travers Grayson of the Red Cross, and the President's Personal Physician Ross Mclntire; 3) ten private practitioners, including Otologist Samuel Joseph Kopetzky of the New York State Medical Society, Surgeon Hugh Cabot of the Mayo Clinic, Internist Soma Weiss of Harvard, Internist John Punnett Peters of Yale, Syphilographer John Hinchman Stokes of the University of Pennsylvania, Surgeon Robert Bayley Osgood of Harvard...
...otologist, Dr. Harold Grant Tobey of Boston made a cheerful point: "Deafness is not a common symptom of brain tumor...
Last week Otologist Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla., president of the Southern Medical Association, resoundingly declared that this malaria-quinine-deafness sequence was a fact. And in a Southern Medical Journal article he gave this strong advice to the ear specialists of the nation...
...That the otologist has practically ignored the possible significance of prenatal medication in infant deafness may be due to the difficulty of early diagnosis. A child must be 2½ to 3 years old before a diagnosis of nerve deafness can be made and by that time the prenatal history has generally been dismissed. The usual history consists principally of whether or not there has been a family history of deafness, consanguinity, hereditary syphilis or meningitis. It seems, however, that inquiry regarding the drugs given the mother during pregnancy may yield information quite as important as whether the patient...