Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months and one day after Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the U. S., died in San Francisco, his immediate predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, passed away at the Capital. At 11:20 of a quiet Sunday morning Admiral Grayson, his physician, emerged from the door of the ex-President's S Street home and faced the silent crowd which had gathered in the street. From a yellow slip of paper in his hand he read the official bulletin announcing that Mr. Wilson's death had taken place five minutes earlier. Many years before he entered the Presidency...
Died. Dr. Ernest Schweninger, 73, onetime personal physician to Chancellor Bismarck; at Munich. It is said he evolved a treatment which prevented Bismarck from growing...
Faith-healing was debated at Lambeth Conference, 1920. The Archbishop of Canterbury appointed their Lordships the Bishops of Oxford, Liverpool, St. Albans and Southwark to investigate. Their Lordships have now reported. They say that "no sick person must look to a clergyman to do what it is a physician's or surgeon's duty to do." They add that it is the Church's duty to assist doctors to combat disease in God's name. "The physician is conscious that he is working with a mysterious partner inherent in life which we call vis medicatrix naturae...
...provincial lodging houses. There is poverty-stricken Virtue roaming the London streets for chapters in search of shelter and employment. There is sentiment, barrels of it, verging narrowly on the sugary. But there is more than the usual amount of intense drama. The strong silent physician who loves and loses is a new face in the gallery of Merrick. The situation of the nurse who gives her life for the child of the man who had betrayed her is a new venture into melodrama. On the whole, a book for the true believer in its author...
...soldiers took the child to their barracks, placed it under the care of a physician. Each man of the garrison made a gift to the orphaned child; later, at the christening, the baby was baptized "Little Moses of the Bulrushes...