Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortunately the question remained purely academic. Lloyd George did not die. His urethra was explored by skillful Dr. John Swift Joly (author of Stone and Calculus Disease of the Urinary Organs). While King George's physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, nodded sagely over the operating table, the learned medicos removed his prostate gland. Next day David Lloyd George was sucking tea through a goose-necked tube...
Things might have been even worse were it not for the prompt arrest of Dr. Villana. Dr. Villana, a sinister figure who could only exist in a romantic novel or modern Spain, is a wandering Gypsy physician who has tramped the bleak hills of Andalusia for years healing the sick and preaching bloody revolution. He and his staff of conspirators were arrested last week just as they were planning a triumphal entrance into Seville. The tavern of the Brothers Cornelio, a notorious Syndicalist meeting place, was surrounded by artillery. Well-trained gunners blew the little bodega to bits with three...
Literature is therapeutic. First physician to prescribe reading for his patients was hearty Dr. Frangois Rabelais (Gargantua, Pantagruel) in about 1530. Now bibliotherapy is being studied carefully. Im- probable novels should be given tuberculous patients, so that they will not excite themselves by attempting to emulate what they read. Feverish or resting patients should not read...
...medicine. . . . There are many ways in which information concerning medical facts may be given to the public that are certain to be helpful in establishing a more confident and intimate relationship between the public and the profession: public health and other medical lectures . . . the daily press . . . the radio. ... A physician is not qualified to take up special work until he has spent some time in general practice...
...summer of 1921 Mr. Roosevelt was at his camp in New Brunswick, Canada. After a hard cross-country tramp, he went swimming in the icy Bay of Fundy. Exhausted, he, aged 39, was stricken with infantile paralysis. In 72 hr. his body was dead from the waist down. His physician told him he would never walk again. But he began to try, first on crutches. At Warm Springs, Ga. he found mineralized water that seemed to help his shriveled legs. In 1924 he put on braces, learned to hobble on sticks. Masseurs and special exercises aided his improvement...