Word: pediatrician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevent colds, Pediatrician Joseph Stokes Jr. and Dr. Tzvee N. Harris used propylene glycol vapor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942) last winter to spray the air of six wards containing 105 children at the Children's Seashore House in Atlantic City. While the wards were being sprayed, three children came down with colds. While the wards were unsprayed, 79 got colds...
...Every child has a unique, dynamic pattern of growth. A mother, aided by her pediatrician, must find this pattern rather than impose an artificial schedule on her baby. A wise mother should be able to sense the time when her child is ready to graduate to the cup, solid foods, long pants, football. She must never try to force him to do certain tasks at a certain age because the books say so. Most of a pediatrician's trouble, confessed the doctors last week, is not with children, but with neurotic, earnest parents...
...Other well-known women doctors: Dr. Gladys Dick of Chicago who discovered the scarlet fever germ, famed Princeton Pediatrician Sara Josephine Baker, founder of New York City's Bureau of Child Hygiene, Columbia University Surgeon Barbara Bartlett Stimson, Philadelphia Public Health Expert Martha Tracy, Head of the American Women's Hospitals Esther Pohl Lovejoy, and Chicago's Surgeon Bertha Van Hoosen (TIME...
...National Socialist Health turned out to be a naturopath. He licensed faith healers and all manner of quacks. Last year this Führer, Dr. Gerhard Wagner, died. His successor is not, as strongly rumored in U. S. medical circles, a veterinarian, but is in fact a well-trained pediatrician named Leonardo Conti, son of Hitler's solidly buxom "Führerin of Midwives...