Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...especially appropriate for Dr. Freud. Some 50 years ago, Goethe's essay Die Natur first decided him to abandon the writing of poetry which had been his occupation, and study natural processes. After a course in general medicine, he specialized in neurology. One day, Dr. Josef Breuer, Viennese physician, told him about a girl cured of hysteria by recollecting under hypnosis certain forgotten experiences. From that time, Freud persisted in his neurological studies, built up a psychological treatment for hysteria which led to the system of psychoanalysis...
...counterpart of Harley Street. Nearest approximations.are Boston's Back Bay district and Washington's I ("Eye") Street. A Harley Street physician or surgeon always comports himself decorously, properly, ofttimes pompously. He has medical learning plus a general culture. (Lord Dawson knows his literature, from which he often quotes. Matthew Arnold is his favorite poet.) Harley Street patients rarely change their doctors. The doctor is part of the family organization. Harley Street men wear a sort of professional uniform. The present costume (Lord Dawson maintains his meticulously) consists of morning clothes- black shoes and socks, grey spats, striped trousers...
...When a man gets a serious illness, he doesn't call in a quack. He puts his faith in the old family physician. . . . The country is facing a crisis...
Elizabeth, Duchess of York, entered her third week of imminent childbirth at Glamis Castle. Four obstetricians were in attendance. Despatches began to mention that the chief physician, Sir Henry Simson, is "an expert in the Caesarian section." Bulletins from the castle began to assure the Empire that everything was all right. Busloads of curious tourists rumbled round the locked gates of the castle. Scotsmen climbed nearby Hunter's Hill, gazed solemnly at the rain-drenched 40-ft. bonfire-pile, waiting these many days to flash the news to the country. Home Secretary John Robert Clynes who must be present...
...President Hoover was 56 last week. Boy Scouts gave him, as their honorary president, a carved buffalo horn. At camp he had an angel-food cake with 56 candles. Dr. Joel T. Boone, White House physician, said the President was in "fine shape." Since inaugural the President's hair above the temples has turned white...