Word: physicians
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Senator Ball of Delaware, who is a physician by profession, will retire from the Senate next March, because another Republican beat him in the primaries. Nevertheless, he has a kind thought for the friends he leaves behind-a thought which he has translated into a bill to increase their salaries. His proposed salaries: Vice President. .$25,000 (now $12,000) Speaker of the House 15,000 (now $12,000) Cabinet Members 18,000 (now $12,000) Chief Justice 21,000 (now $15,000) Associate Justices. 20,000 (now $14,500) Senators 12,000 (now $ 7,500) Representatives...
...newspapers have devoted much space to recent experiments performed by Prof. Molgaard of Denmark in attempting to treat tuberculosis with a chemical substance containing a certain amount of gold. The idea of gold as a therapeutic agent has always had a peculiar fascination for both the public and the physician, so that "gold cures" have been available for practically every type of ill from which mankind may suffer. Unfortunately, none of these "cures" has thus far stood the test of scientific observation. The method devised by Prof. Molgaard has been tested on animals in his laboratories to a rather limited...
...Edward R. Stitt, Rear Admiral, Surgeon General of the U. S. Navy. Last week, Doctor-Admiral Stitt addressed the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. He had in mind the convention, next spring, of the Congress on Internal Medicine, when he said: "I look to this society of physicians to keep us from drifting into the methods of Egyptians, of whom it is stated: 'Medicine is practiced among them on a plan of separation. Each physician treats a single disorder and no more; thus the country swarms with medical practitioners, some undertaking to cure diseases...
...Agriculture Wallace of complications following appendicitis, in October last; seventh, the death of Mrs. Harding, widow of the late President, last week. At White Oaks Farm, near Marion, where she had been making her home at the sanatarium of Dr. Carl W. Sawyer (son of the late White House physician), Mrs. Harding was seriously ill for about a month. She had been suffering for some years from a kidney trouble which nearly resulted in her death two years ago. A few days before the end, an alleviative operation was performed. Her death was quiet; for some hours she had gradually...
...chief members of the party which made the trip to Alaska were: Secretaries Work of the Interior, Wallace of Agriculture, Hoover of Commerce; Speaker Frederick H. Gillett, White House Physician Charles E. Sawyer...