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Died. Sir James Reid, 73, physician to Queen Victoria and Edward VII, at London...
...President's journey to Alaska. There the first really untoward event of the trip occurred. Mrs. Harding took to her bed. Through all the travails of the strenuous tour up to that point, Mrs. Harding had held out bravely. There exhaustion overcame her, and Brigadier General Sawyer, her physician, ordered that she remain...
House of Lords. Viscount Astor, in moving the second reading of his wife's bill to prevent the sale of intoxicants to persons under the age of 18 years, gave Lord Dawson, King's Physician, an opportunity of eulogizing Bacchus. He said that alcohol, if taken in moderation, added to " the pleasure, exhilaration, happiness and gayety of life." For the practical purposes of the bill he said that alcohol was not necessary to youth, as experience showed that it was at the tender ages damaging to the nervous system...
Homeopathy (from Gk., "like disease"). Founded by Samuel C. F. Hahnemann, a Leipzig physician, in 1796. His main work was The Organon of Rational Healing, which embodies the four main principles of the homeopathic creed: 1) The "proving" or testing of all medicines on healthy persons before their use in treatment. 2) The law of "similars''-often epitomized in a Latin maxim, Similia similibus curantur. The theory is that specific drugs produce in the healthy, symptoms of the diseases they are adapted to cure. The selection and administration of the proper drug for each disease is the heart...
Osteopathy (from Gk., "bone dis- ease"). Founded by Dr. Andrew T. Still, an old-school physician of Baldwin, Kan., in 1874. The first college was opened at Kirksville, Mo., in 1892, and is still the headquarters of the movement. Seven other schools have been started. All the regular medical subjects are taught, though from a different point of view, except materia medico,, for which osteopathic theory and practice is substituted. The course is three years in length. The osteopathic method uses no drugs and is based on the theory that any disease can be controlled by nature...