Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some years ago a German physician reported that workers in the mines could be relieved from fatigue by small doses of sodium phosphate. Now Professor Neville Moss of the University of Birmingham claims that miners working in a temperature of about 100° become exhausted less easily when drinking water that contains even 0.2% of common salt. The British physiologist, J. S. Haldane, explains this as due to the fact that the salt added to the drinking water makes up for that taken from the body by perspiration. Scientists are inclined to regard the matter as empirical and await controlled...
...first place, a man he had exiled to Chile early in September had the affrontery to return. This man was the eminent South American physician, Jose Gabino Villanueva, President-Elect of Bolivia, who, on the eve of inauguration, refused to do Saavedra's bidding and was therefore promptly declared unelected and, a week later, exiled. No one could guess what hopes had lured Senor Villanueva back to Bolivia, but it was certain that this time Saavedra, taking no chances, would send him under armed guard to an unhealthy part of the country...
...statistics set forth show that there are two physicians to every 753 people in the U. S. whereas in England there is one physician to every 1,087 and in the Central European countries one physician to every 2,225. North Dakota does poorly, has one to every 1,386; South Carolina one to 1,325: on the other hand, California does well has one to every 455; the District of Columbia one to every 242 Colorado one to 539. New York, Vermont, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, have one to from 600 to 700 people...
Died. Dr. J. S. Halstead, 107, "oldest physician and oldest Free Mason in the U. S.," progenitor of 80 living descendants, survivor of a wife who had passed away at the age of 95; at Breckenridge, Mo., in the night. For a year he was the family physician of Henry Clay, famed orator. In 1851 Mrs. Clay called him in to treat some slave children on their plantation who had contracted scarlet fever. He became the friend and medical adviser of Mr. Clay, who died...
...James W. McKane, veteran missionary physician from Siam; Dr. H. C. de Souza-Arujo, Brazilian leper specialist; Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic Laboratories at Washington, also addressed the demi-tasses. Their discourse was authoritative, technical, optimistic. They knew that their fellow guests, gentlemen who like them had ministered in dim jungles and remote frontiers to living bodies half liquified by ghastly corruption, were not easily put off their diet by good meat, good talk...