Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anxious to know whether or not the orders for such emergency treatment actually came from a physician. Journals of medicine as well as standard surgical texts specifically advise against such application of greasy materials to second or third degree burns, even in dire emergency. Aside from some easing of the pain, the only effect this treatment could have would be harmful. Physicians know that a burned area is not greatly different from any other wound, and as such, is very easily infected by impromptu therapy from sympathetic onlookers...
...Manhattan's colossal Bellevue Hospital last week, a famed heart specialist died. He was Dr. John Henry Wyckoff, 55, president of the American Heart Association, dean of New York University Medical School, professor of medicine there and attending physician at Bellevue. It was in the University's anatomical laboratory that this leader in medical education and practice was found in collapse. A few days prior he had been questioned by Federal investigators of a serious insurance racket of which, like many an honest specialist before him, he had been an innocent fool...
...poor health for the past three years, Mr. Baker boarded the Viking last February for what he called a "stag cruise-the first vacation since I was married 30 years ago." Stricken with peritonitis in mid-Pacific last week, Mr. Baker was operated upon by his yacht's physician, assisted by a doctor and nurse haled from a passing liner. Radio brought further medical aid from Hawaii, sped by the Navy, the Coast Guard, the U. S. Public Health Service. Mrs. Baker dashed 5.500 mi. by air from Manhattan to arrive in Honolulu the day before her husband died...
...department thoroughly disapproves of the use of benzedrine sulfate unless the patient is under the strict supervision of a competent physician. The drug is very likely to be harmful and not enough is known about benzedrine sulfate to warrant its use by men who are not acquainted with its character and the damage it may cause. Without prescription, several students are taking a drug the medical profession is still very doubtful about...
...days before his death, he complained of feeling tired but his physician, Dr. H. L. Merryday, did not consider him in danger. Late Saturday night he slipped into a coma, never recovered. His last words were: "Raise me up a little bit." None of the Rockefeller family was with him. John D. Jr., his only son, was at Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Alta Rockefeller Prentice, his only living daughter, was at her estate at Williamstown, Mass. At the bedside in the air-conditioned chamber were Mrs. Fannie Evans, the cousin who acted as his hostesshousekeeper; his longtime...