Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mills attended the Harvard School a military and Episcopal academy, in Los Angeles last year. His father graduated from the Medical School in 1902 and is now a practicing physician...
...Ross T. Mclntyre, the White House physician, last week pronounced President Roosevelt physically "in the pink" after his 4,000-mile Drought tour. That his spirits were also tiptop appeared when White House correspondents filed into their first press conference after his return, primed to josh him about his "nonpolitical" campaign...
Although A-to-Baggage, as the editors point out, is composed chiefly of abstract words, it contains many U. S. technical coinages like airbrake, airline, automobile, autobus, autocar, autotruck. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes thought up the word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed...
Cows, the first subjects of vacination, leading the way to a medical practice which has meant so much to the world, are memorialized in a set of Staffordshire ware also on view. The set of china was presented by Dr. Edward jenner, English physician and discoverer of vaccination, to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, a member of the Harvard faculty from...
...business, optometrists occupy a position between oculists and opticians. Oculists, or ophthalmologists are full-fledged M.D.'s who have chosen to specialize in the treatment of eye disorders. It is their job to use drugs and surgery when necessary. They also prescribe glasses; in fact any physician may legally do so, though most nonspecialists do not. Optometrists do not need a medical degree, must be licensed, are not allowed to give medicinal or surgical treatment. They examine for refractive errors such as astigmatism, nearsightedness, farsightedness, prescribe lenses, generally fill their own prescriptions in a back room...