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...Grub Street Hack. Elizabeth was a heroine, but not for long. In Grub Street a hack named Dr. John Hill, who combined the practice of medicine with the writing of plays and a column in the London Daily Advertiser ("His farces are Physic, his Physic a Farce is," said Actor David Garrick), went and talked with Virtue Hall. Under pressure she admitted that her evidence at the Old Bailey had been false from beginning to end. In the penny press, the taverns and gaming houses, the case was reopened. Londoners divided themselves into Canningites and Egyptians...
...doctor. "Sent to Hell, sir, and punished everlastingly," roared Johnson. He would glance fearfully at the dial of his watch, which bore the Greek inscription: The night cometh, when no man can work. But on his deathbed his deep piety came to the fore. "I will take no more physic, not even my opiates," he said; "for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded." On Dec. 20, 1784, he was buried in Westminster Abbey. His epitaph, suggests Author Krutch, might have been taken from an exclamation by his friend Sir Joshua Reynolds : "His work...
Included in the group were Oliver Cope '23, assistant professor of surgery, to replace Edward D. Churchill '02, John Homans Professor of surgery, Donald L. Augustine, associate professor of comparative pathology and tropical medicine, a new appointment, George W. Thorn, associate professor of the theory and practice of physic, to replace Walter Bauer, associate professor of medicine, and Frederick J. Stare, assistant professor of nutrition, a new appointment...
...depression. "Neither [Christina] nor Canby was surprised when Hitler took Bohemia and Moravia, for this was what they had predicted when Chamberlain came back from Munich," but "they were numbed." They were shattered when "President Roosevelt recognized Franco the moment Madrid fell-like a man who has taken a physic, as Canby said, and can't wait to get to the bathroom...
...present Senior class at the Medical School will graduate early in June, and the "Aesculapiad," the year book, is to be dedicated to Soma Weiss, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, who died on January...