Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ramifications almost illimitable. The professor not only has the Scylla and Charybdis of modern life and academic needs to steer between, he has the waters of misunderstanding and prejudice through which to make his patient way. For when he becomes ironic he loses his prestige as a scholar, and when he loses his irony he becomes dull. Then newspapers and journals to quote George Ross in the "Atlantic"--send back his efforts, kindly but with little scruple about his past prestige. But more than all he must weather the shoals of thought into which the winds of mere courtesy...
These secrets of mechanical anatomy were revealed by the General Electric Co. one day last week after having the car on the operating table for a bit of electric welding, which proved wholly successful despite the patient's great...
Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), English, taught doctors to study the patient instead of wrangling about what Hippocrates and Galen might have meant in their writings...
Cables, telegrams, letters, telephone tinkles and callers poured into the home of Dr. Samuel Hybbinette of Stockholm last week. It was the Doctor's 50th birthday. The thousands congratulating him were chiefly medical colleagues and onetime patients, whose fondness and admiration were not occasioned by Dr. Hybbinette's superlative surgical skill and his magnetic personality alone. Nor had he performed some new miracle with his keen scalpel. But one and all praised him for a habit that he has, a talented habit uncommon among surgeons. Dr. Hybbinette has a rich tenor voice. He has won many a prize...
...jungle parasite. Slaves just imported into the U. S. used to have it once in a while. After their little toes decayed and dropped off, other toes were liable to become infected. One case is on medical record where such piecemeal, painless degeneration took place 60 times until the patient's entire leg was gone. Medicines are no good...