Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johnston has a secretary, a small, attractive, dark-haired Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, who sits at a desk outside the gubernatorial sanctum and asks people their business when they come in. Mrs. Hammonds and her husband, a physician whom Mr. Johnston appointed State Health Commissioner, moved into an apartment adjoining the Johnstons' last winter. Later the Johnstons took a house, with the Hammondses on the ground floor. Here, too, Mrs. Hammonds inquires the business of callers...
...Like a physician who cheers up his patient by showing professional enthusiasm over unique features of the case, Secretary of Commerce Hoover, national disaster-doctor, last week told Governor John E. Weeks of Vermont that he "would be delighted to be associated with the people of Vermont" in rehabilitating the state;* that the New England flood was unparalleled because of the rapidity with which so much damage had been done...
Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to the British Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: "To ask this generation to go back to the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for "gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life...
...physician extraordinary to the late King Edward...
King George V's Physician Extraordinary, Edward Farquhar Buzzard, in London last week, took "the courage of my profession in my two hands" and warned religious faith healers not to interfere with mental hygiene efforts. Said he, a neurologist: "We [doctors] make no claim to cure disease. I look forward to a day when the church will have courage to say that it makes no claim to spiritual healing...