Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old medical doctor, Carl Thorstein Scott, who has just returned from Abyssinia where for a year and a half he was court physician to the last descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, relates that since May 1933 he has treated over 20,000 patients in the great hospital at Dessye, most of them for various lung troubles-Abyssinia is a mountainous country; many also suffer from venereal and tropical diseases...
...Crown Prince frequently paid friendly visits to the young physician at the hospital to the great consternation of his solemn lifeguard of sometimes 3,500 magnificently armed men. He was born in 1909 according to Ethiopian calculation of time, but in 1915 according to our calendar. His name with titles looks like this: Mgorash Moered Atmatch Asfa Woosen. He is a very munificent monarch who talks many languages, a stately young man who lives in Dessye and governs that province, so to speak, to learn the art of ruling the entire country...
...tenant farmer in Jefferson County was unable, because of old age and illness, to work out his crop. A physician prescribed for his ailment, but the man could not buy the medicine, and no relief agency would supply it. A four-year-old girl in the family died at the end of the year of anemia. The tenant moved several miles away to another farm, but after several weeks the landowner decided that he was too old and ill to work a crop on a tenant-farmer basis, or on any other basis, and he was evicted...
Died. Dr. Elmer Isaac McKesson, 53, physician, pioneer inventor of gas and anesthesia appliances, an oxygen tent, an artificial larynx; of a kidney ailment; in Toledo, Ohio. He founded McKesson Appliance Co., one of the world's largest firms of its kind, died with one of his own oxygen masks on his face...
...virgin, would approach softly and lay his head in a true virgin's lap. Though this notion gave rise to no little scandal, no one managed to trap the elusive beast by virgins or otherwise. A bit of unicorn horn ground to powder was regarded by a medieval physician as the most potent remedy he could administer, but because undisputed horns turned up so rarely the price ranged from...