Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a time when horns supposed to be those of the fantastic unicorn sold for $12,000 to $150,000 apiece. A powdered bit of genuine unicorn horn was considered the most potent remedy a medieval physician could prescribe. On at least one occasion the tip of a unicorn horn was administered to a dying Pope (TIME, Feb. 25, 1935). Unicorns are described in legends far back into the mists of antiquity. Many men boasted of having seen the creature. All agreed that he was a proud and mighty beast, too wise and fleet to let himself be caught...
...children (TIME, March 23). As Dr. A. J. Kemper. county public health officer, uprose to dedicate the 100,000th privy last week, four bumpkin students from nearby Salem College, Senator Holt's alma mater, whizzed by in an automobile, tossed corncobs at his feet. Unperturbed, the tall, grave physician proceeded to point out that up to 1932 some 1,000 West Virginia children died of flux (contagious diarrhea), 250 citizens of typhoid fever every year, that at the rate of decrease which has accompanied the Relief privy program West Virginia would be entirely rid of those diseases within five...
...family physician sent her back to a Syracuse nose & throat specialist who operated on the tonsils, was later obliged to call in a general practitioner to treat a "puzzling pleurisy" which Medical Student Newcomer soon developed. She recovered, was graduated and licensed to practice medicine, went to Paris for postgraduate study, returned to Manhattan "to establish and run semi-public clinics for the so-called white-collar classes." She learned enough about what patients think of doctors to publish an emotional book on the subject last week...
...person who knows that he is going to locate permanently in a strange and large city would do well to obtain letters of introduction from a physician of the community from which he is about to move. . . . Choose, then, a man who is known as a general practitioner or an internal medical man, rather than a surgeon or a specialist for your personal medical adviser...
Herewith Dr. Newcomer's solution of a frequent patient-doctor quandary: "If you consult a doctor who, you believe, does not understand you or your case, you should feel perfectly at liberty to change physicians. The polite, kind way to make this switch is to notify the doctor, either verbally, or by letter, that you have decided to dispense with his service. A doctor appreciates this frankness. However, he is so accustomed to handling human nature that if you say nothing at all to him and simply go to another physician, he will feel you have acted well within...