Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Much Smallpox. Much less puzzling is the smallpox situation, covered for 1925 by the U. S. Public Health Reports, available last week for study. Formerly thousands died or were disfigured annually by smallpox. Now many a physician has never seen a case. Such improvement is certainly due to the efficacy of vaccination.* Yet in 1923 there were 21,233 smallpox cases reported; the next year 43,029 (103% increase); and last year 31,037 (decrease of 28% from 1924; increase of 46% from 1923). The analysis of this smallpox situation is extremely curt: the public has become lethargic to preventive...
...Richard Clarke Cabot feel that he owes considerable of his sociological curiosity to his wife, Ella Lyman Cabot. They were married in 1894, three years after she completed some special work at Radcliffe and two years after he received his M. D. degree at Harvard. While he was Visiting Physician to Channing House, Boston (1895-8), and later Physician to the Outpatient Department of Massachusetts General Hospital (since 1898), she studied further at Radcliffe (1897-1900). That fall of 1900 Harvard College permitted her to take graduate courses in logic and metaphysics. This was while she was teaching ethics...
...Clinical Examination of the Blood, Serum Diagnosis of Disease, Physical Diagnosis. Case Histories in Medicine, Social Service and the Art of Healing. Differential Diagnosis, What Men Live By, Laymen's Handbook of Medicine, Rewards and Training of a Physician, Social Work. His later books reveal a shrewd estimate of the popular intelligence. While they never decoy the reader into bypaths, still they are in startling contrast to the keen methodology of his earlier, more scholarly tomes...
Painless Childbirth. Three hypodermic injections of epsom salts, one with a trace of morphine, prevented pains of 96% of 3,000 mothers delivered the past three years. The procedure may be used by any competent physician anywhere, under any conditions; is much preferable to the nitrous oxide or the "twilight sleep" technique. (Reported by Dr. James T. Gwathmey of Lying-in Hospital, Manhattan...
Read TIME from cover to cover ?the pages following this quiz as -well as those preceding. Then return to p. 33. Quiz yourself. Normal persons should answer correctly at least 20 questions. 1) What advice of his personal physician is Calvin Coolidge believed to disregard? (See THE PRESIDENCY.) 2) Who sailed quietly indeed, nearly unnoticed, on the Majestic? (See THE CABNET.) 3) "If I tell a jury to find a man guilty, and they do not, I will send them to jail." Who said? (See THE CONGRESS.) 4) At what trade did Mussolini once labor? (See ITALY...