Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted a resolution appropriating $300,000 toward restoration of the frigate Constitution ("Old Ironsides"). ¶ Passed a bill raising Lieut.-Commander Joel Thompson Boone, physician to President Hoover, to captain's rank and pay. ¶ Passed a bill to put interstate bus traffic under the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...cannot cure disease by contemplating the difficulties before one. If cancer is suspected, go early to a competent physician or to a recognized cancer clinic...
...dentist. He seated his big strong body in the dental chair, complained of a toothache. The dentist found an ulcerated molar, extracted it. As Justice Sanford started to get up an attack of vertigo sent him sprawling to the floor. Alarmed, the dentist called a physician who administered a hypodermic stimulant which failed to relieve the judge's mortal distress. Unconscious, Justice Sanford was carried to his home on Connecticut Avenue. There, before noon, he died of acute uremic poisoning.* Five hours later, three blocks away, died William Howard Taft who was more responsible than any other...
When he arrived at the Union station, onlookers were shocked at his appearance. All color had gone from his deflated cheeks. His eyelids drooped listlessly. He was unresponsive to sights and sounds. Dr. Francis Randall Hagnar, his physician, assured newsmen that Mr. Taft was in no pain. Helped out of the railroad car by four attendants, the sick man was placed in a rolling chair, too small for him. The onetime Chief Justice showed a faint flicker of a smile. News cameramen pressed rudely about him, exploded their flashlights before his unseeing eyes...
...specificity of these conclusions, made by Dr. Ralph Arthur Reynolds, 38, of San Francisco last week, intrigued doctors and criminologists. Where did he get his data? At California's San Quentin prison where he and Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley, 43, prison physician, discovered that every one of the inmates had some abnormal glandular stigma. Three score they treated by surgery or with glandular extracts. All responded with "surprisingly beneficial" results, suggesting therefore a way of reforming criminals...