Word: pathologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. After 200 to 300 treatments, 56% were improved, none were worse. At the same time 65% of an untreated group got worse. Dr. John William Guy Hannon of Washington, Pa. tried the dust on 176 silicotics in the ceramics, steel and glass industries, improved 168 of them. Famed Pathologist Leroy Gardner of Saranac Lake, N.Y. has also tried out aluminum (and other dusts) on silicotic guinea pigs, watched the successful results by X-ray and microscope...
...Almost as illogical as the bleedings and purgings of previous generations," continued the pathologist, is the custom of making all victims of heart attacks stay in bed for six weeks. Very often a doctor finds a patient with failure of the left side of the heart sitting up in a chair and orders him to bed, "whereupon the patient proceeds to suffocate." Another lethal effect of bed rest : pneumonia caused by collection of fluid in the lungs. This is why sick oldsters should not stay in bed "one hour longer than necessary." They should sit up part of the time...
Born in Jail. Professor Alexander Alexandrovitch Bogomoletz, who has worked on the serum for more than 18 years, is a physiologist and pathologist of very high international standing. He is director of Kiev's Institute for Experimental Biology and Pathology which, until the Nazis got there, was one of the best equipped laboratories in the world. Since 1930 he has been president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. When the Germans came, he moved from Kiev (he was born in jail there in 1881, while his mother was a political prisoner) to Ufa in the Urals. This month...
Genius has had many odd explanations, but one of the oddest yet was advanced last week by an eminent Chicago pathologist. A onetime University of Illinois Medical School professor, William F. Petersen, offered the theory that an individual's chances of becoming a great man are greatly improved if he is conceived in a period of sunspot turbulence and foul weather. Dr. Petersen published a report called Lincoln-Douglas: The Weather As Destiny (Charles C Thomas, Springfield...
Still another 100 deaths--all occurring in state hospitals, come annually under the examination of the Department of Legal Medicine. These come through the work of Dr. Walter W. Jetter, an instructor in the Medical School and a regular member of the staff, who is the pathologist of the State Department of Mental Health...