Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plaque on the home of the late Sir Charles Hastings, B. M. A. founder, speakers in the main refrained from historical palaver. Professor Julian Sorell Huxley told about the "Biology of Human Nature.'' The Prince of Wales attended the Centenary Dinner in Albert Hall, sat close to his personal physician Bertrand Dawson Lord Dawson of Penn, incoming B. M. A. president...
Frimbo, the conjure-man, was a queer one. He lived next to an undertaker and died, apparently, from having a handkerchief stuffed down his throat. It would have been impossible for a normal person to find out who killed him, but not for Dr. Archer, a colored physician almost as erudite as Frimbo himself. Dr. Archer's suggestions proved invaluable to Detective Dart who seated himself in Frimbo's parlor and proceeded to examine suspects: the undertaker; the undertaker's wife ; a Negro porter named Easley Jones; a dope fiend; a "numbers" runner; two light-hearted Negro bucks named Bubber...
Author Fisher is a young Negro physician who lives and practices in Jamaica, L. I. His detective story is one of the first by a Negro and with an all-Negro cast Negroes are suitable for mystery stories because they are hard to see in the dark and because white folk, not knowing much about them, believe them primitively prone to violence. Author Fisher writes much better than most white fictioneers. One of the things that makes his book unusual is highly appropriate local color about Harlem. Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins are as funny as Amos & Andy. Says Bubber...
Healer Locke, an M. D. and licensed physician, treats goitre, delivers babies as well as manipulating feet. But a chief activity is treating arthritis and rheumatism. In Edinburgh he learned that walking too soon after illness frequently caused fallen arches and other foot troubles. He claims that foot ills pave the way for arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica. He believes that by restoring normal foot posture, relieving pressure upon the posterior tibial nerve, he can relieve the diseases. Some physicians, realizing that there is much about these diseases that medicine does not know, believe Dr. Locke may be right. Others, pointing...
...regulate the action of the insulin (i.e., prevent too great a reduction of blood sugar) a strict diet must be observed. The danger of insulin treatment is that the patient by relaxing his diet may get an hypoglycemic shock-break into a cold sweat, have convulsions, collapse. Unless a physician is on hand to give an injection of glucose solution he may even...