Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Baron Tomosaburo Kato, Premier of Japan, was reported to be serious ill, "so ill that only his wife and physician are allowed in his room." It was rumored in Tokyo that his death was imminent...
...Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860-1904), Danish physician, inventor of the Finsen lamp for treating diseases with decolorized light rays...
...little taste. It can be eaten straight or in salads, buttermilk or bread. It satisfies the craving of diabetics for fatty foods. After preliminary experiments on animals, intarvin was tried on more than two dozen patients at Beth Israel Hospital, where Dr. Kahn is director of laboratories and attending physician for diseases of metabolism. It alleviated all the cases, some of which were in the final coma, and succeeded in some where insulin had failed. It is not expected to supplant insulin, however, for the two treatments proceed from different principles, insulin being injectel hypodermically to reduce the blood sugar...
...year ago the British Minister of Health, in view of wide public agitation and controversy between the National Council for Combatting Venereal Diseases and the Society for the Prevention of Venereal Diseases, and at the suggestion of Lord Dawson, the King's physician, appointed a committee to investigate and bring in an authoritative pronouncement on the most efficient medical measures for preventing syphilis and gonorrhea, and the ethical justification for their use. The committee contained some of the most distinguished and impartial names in England, including Lord Trevethin (former Lord Chief Justice) as Chairman, Dr. John Brownlee, Prof. Georges...
Esperanto was invented by Dr. L. Zamenhof, a physician of Bielostok, Russia, where the clash of four races (Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews), suggested the necessity for a neutral tongue. Esperanto was first published in 1887, seven years after its predecessor, Volapük, which it has now supplanted...