Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churchlike chamber the House of Lords last week considered the serious subject of birth control. A bill, already past its first reading, was before the House to regulate the sale of contraceptives, liberalize birth control instruction. Proponent of the bill was a weighty champion. King George's own physician, Lord Dawson of Penn...
...death of Texas Guinan and the epidemic of amebic dysentery in Chicago (TIME, Nov. 20). I read the article with great interest because I had visited the Fair a very few weeks previous. During the latter part of December I began to have internal disorders and my local physician was not concerned about my troubles, but having your article seriously in mind I told him the story and immediately we consulted a specialist and an examination disclosed that I had amebic dysentery...
Many long years ago lived Blasius, physician and bishop of Sebaste in Armenia. In his old age, during the persecutions of Emperor Licinius, Blasius retired to a cave where he made friends with lions, leopards, bears and wolves. One day the emperor's huntsmen found him, dragged him away from his pets. On his way to trial Blasius cured a small boy who was choking on a fish bone. He also made a wolf return a pig it had stolen from an old woman. When Blasius was flung into a dungeon to starve, the woman gratefully brought...
...Hepburn is the wife of a Hartford physician, the mother of famed Actress Katharine Hepburn, the cousin of Alanson Bigelow Houghton. An ardent worker for Causes, she once picketed the White House for suffrage. Following the well-tried formula of the past three years, Birth Controller Hepburn induced a Congressman, this time old (72) Representative Walter Marcus Pierce of Oregon, to introduce a bill exempting the medical profession from the Federal ban on the shipment of contraceptive information and material. Four times before in the last ten years had a House Committee heard arguments on similar legislation and four times...
...Mayo Brothers clinic in Rochester, Minn. Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, 55, personal physician to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, was recuperating after removal of a kidney tumor. At his bedside was his good friend Bernard Mannes Baruch...