Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Pope went his chief physician, Professor Aminta Milani, head of the Vatican sanitation department. Dr. Milani, with eight colleagues of the Vatican staff and eight consultants, gave the Holy Father a thoroughgoing examination last month, found his condition ''satisfactory for his age." Chief trouble, Vatican attendants admitted, is that the Pope, once a sturdy mountain climber, finds it difficult not only to walk but to breathe easily. In all his daily activities he now is borne about in a sedan chair, or in his ceremonial sedia gestatoria (portable throne). Near the Benediction Hall, where Pius...
Further to please Queen Mary, Baron Dawson of Penn, the physician who pulled George V through pneumonia (TIME, April 8, 1929) and attended him in his last hours, was created by Edward VIII last week a Viscount, the highest rank figuring this year in the King's birthday honors. Baronies went to Chairman J. B. W. Pease of Lloyd's Bank, to the Indian United Provinces' retired Governor...
...were going so well that the Queen raised his regular allowance from $3 to $15 per week, the raise being granted on condition that Peter II keep accounts on his shop. During the winter this fretted His Majesty even more than his cramming for examinations. Last week the court physician described the King as "over-worked," approved a vacation which His Majesty will spend this year bathing, fishing and mountain-climbing on the Dalmatian seacoast until mid-September...
...Scutari, Flo and her charges sweep the dirty corridors, poison the rats, reduce the death rate from 42% to 2%. Ably publicized by the London Times correspondent (Ian Hunter), their efforts infuriate the chief physician (Donald Crisp) who considers female nursing a sin & a shame. Flo goes to the front hospital at Balaklava, catches cholera, gets back to Scutari to find most of her good work undone. She does it over again, returns to London, gets from Queen Victoria a brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing...
Amid thunderous cheers Rotarians elected as their international president for the coming year a Nashville lawyer named William R. Manier Jr., who has been an active Rotarian for 20 years. They listened to Amos O. Squire, consulting physician at New York State's Sing Sing Prison, declare: "Only rarely have I known of [Boy] Scouts landing in penal institutions." The Rotarians liked that because they are earnest supporters of boys' organizations. Then the Rotarians debated and tabled a resolution favoring prompt completion of the Inter-American Highway (see p. 44), debated and adopted a resolution "expressing interest...