Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvey made his discovery, the first in modern physiology, by vivisection which "has always been my delight." He was a hardbitten, "small and choleric" man, physician to both Kings James I and Charles I of England. Of Francis Lord Bacon, philosopher and statesman, who was his patient, he once sneered: "He writes philosophy like a lord chancellor. I have cured...
Three thousand surgeons drifted into Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week. It was easy to see that they were surgeons, not physicians. The physician is apt to be benign, a trifle careless of his dress, slow in speech. The surgeon, on the other hand, tends to talk swiftly, dress meticulously, gesture boldly. There are always more evening clothes at a surgeons' meet than at a physicians'. This was the American College of Surgeons, at its 21st annual clinical congress...
...believe, were rather higher than the publication of half truths and misrepresentations and downright falsehoods. I confess that a rather unworthy suspicion has crossed my mind that it has perhaps been easier for our traducers to gain a hearing than it has been for our defenders Here & there a physician has raised his voice, not always, I am sorry to say, with very profound wisdom, but lay defenders are notably absent, and I find it rather hard to believe that an occasional satisfied layman, an occasional grateful patient, has not tried to say something in our favor...
...confirmed agnostic (see p. 22), he confronted death with equanimity tinged by curiosity. His personal physician, Dr. Hubert S. Howe, who with the second Mrs. Edison, was present during his last illness, revealed two utterances which interrupted the coma of Edison's last days. Said Dr. Howe: "When asked if he believed in immortality, he answered briefly, 'No.' A few days before he passed away, he was sitting in his chair apparently enjoying a pleasant dream. Suddenly opening his eyes ... his face illuminated with a smile, he said: 'It is very beautiful over there...
Three members were chosen to serve three-year terms on the Committee on Nomination of Overseers, Directors of the Alumni Association and Members of the Harvard Fund Council. They are Clement B. Wood '98, lawyer, of Philadelphia, Channing Frothingham '02, physician, of Boston, and Roger Pierce '04, banker, of Milton. Samuel H. Wolcott '03, of Boston, already a member of the committee, was elected its chairman...