Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South of Brno, 150 Jews were in the same plight. Smaller groups, many stricken with influenza, dotted the area. Carloads of food sent by Prague sympathizers were turned back at Czech Army lines. One refugee, a Breclav physician, went insane. Czech and German passersby, crossing the no-man's-land, defied the authorities and tossed into the ditches what food they could sneak through...
...warn children against sweets, doctors and dentists act on an old hunch that there is some relationship between diet and dental caries (tooth decay). Last week at a meeting of the First District Dental Society of the State of New York, two brothers, Lieutenant Leland James Belding, a Navy physician, and Paul H. Belding, a Waucoma, Ia. dentist, claimed to have confirmed the belief that diet and caries are related. Backing their conclusions with a mass of laboratory detail gathered over a period of twelve years, they declared that the cause of caries was not candy but certain "fractions...
...years ago, Professor Einar Meulen-gracht, chief physician of Bispebjaerg Hospital in Copenhagen, examined a 71-year-old Swedish engineer who had lost four inches and was slowly shrinking back to boyhood height. So brittle had his bones become that once when he bent to pick up a heavy weight he heard his spine crack. To bolster up his telescoped vertebrae doctors had tried three different leather corsets, three fabric corsets with iron stays, as well as heavy doses of Vitamin D, calcium, and ground eggshells. Dr. Meulengracht found that the patient had always had sufficient calcium in his diet...
...malnutrition have begun to appear. It is reported that at least 4,000 cases of pellagra have developed in Madrid alone. The Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy is doing what it can to mitigate the plight of these innocent victims of the war. Dr. Miller, as a humane physician, surely does not protest against that effort...
Since it scrapped its traffic light system four years ago, busy, industrial Bayonne, N.J. has had a substantial decrease in traffic mishaps. No scientist has explained why. But last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Cincinnati Physician Howard D. Fabing examined the behavior of the average motorist, found that traffic lights caused conditioned reflexes which made him as dithery as one of Russian Physiologist I.P. Pavlov's famous third-degreed dogs...