Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fort Worth, Tex.; 2) for various types of insanity, including dementia praecox, through removal of circulatory and nerve defects, by Dr. A S. Hildreth, of Macon, Mo.; 3) for infected tonsils, through nonsurgical treatment, by Dr. Lucius Bush, of New York. A practical examination for every physician once in five years to keep him up with the times was advocated by Dr. C. J. Gaddis, of Chicago. Dr. W. A. Gravett, of Dayton, 0., was elected President...
...House has himself experimented with scopolamin for seven years, and says he has had no failures. He has been a practicing physician for 25 years. He does not claim that the use of scopolamin is practicable or desirable in courts, but he believes it an invaluable agency in furnishing clues by a humane variety of third degree. He wants to demonstrate its efficiency in federal prisons...
Died. Hermann M. Biggs, M. D., 63, internationally-known physician, Health Commissioner of New York State. (See page...
Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work, himself a physician and former President of the American Medical Association, calls attention to the alarming lack of facilities for the training of Negro doctors, dentists, nurses. There is a white physician to every 553 white persons in the United States, but only one colored doctor to every 3,194 negroes. As to dentists, the ratios are even worse: white, 1 to 2,070; Negro, 1 to 20,500. There are but two negro medical schools in the country-that of Howard University at Washington, which also has departments of dentistry and pharmacy...
...Nigerian physician who betrayed the Secret Smallpox Society...