Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condition of Colonel John pain. He had direct communication with the White House by telephone whenever he desired it. His physician, Albert W. Cram of Bridgewater, Vt., has visited him several times a week, going by sleigh or snow motor over the miles of snow-covered roads to Plymouth, where the snow now lies about four feet deep. Recently the Colonel arranged to lease his sugar lot, because he will be unable to harvest the maple sugar this year since he has lost the use of his legs. The sugar bush, known as "Lime Kiln Lot," because...
...Justice Holmes is as venerable as his father, and equals his sire in other respects. The father began his career by studying law, assayed literature and wrote Old Ironsides. Finally he settled on medicine. He never attained great success as a physician, although his contributions to medicine were well recognized in the profession. Even when his literary interests again became predominant, he continued as professor at the Harvard Medical School, teaching anatomy until 1882. Into medicine he took his literary talents, turned his biting wit against homeopathy, enlivened his teaching so that it is said his lectures were placed late...
...Sunday the President remained away from church upon his physician's advice, in order not to contract another cold...
Late one evening Joseph P. Tumulty returned home in Washington from a dinner. He had a severe cold. He thought he smelled gas and went upstairs to find his wife and daughters, Grace and Alice, violently ill and coughing. A physician was called and found them suffering from monoxide gas poisoning. The kitchen stove was suspected...
Soon after dawn his Japanese physician visited him, blanched. Rushing from the room he telegraphed to Berne for a specialist, to Geneva for a nurse, to London for another nurse. Prince Chichibu had been stricken with measles?a serious disease for an adult...