Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's fingers instead of allowing him to do the shaking. The President's hand turned red and began to swell. Jeweled rings cut into his palm and finger tips. The President noticed he was getting blood on ladies' white gloves. He felt fatigued. White House Physician Joel Boone ordered him to cut short the ordeal, retire upstairs. Behind were left several thousand unhandshaken guests. Next day the President appeared with a bandage around his fingers...
...recovering with no observable permanent stigmata. Dr. Stewart, overworked, lost resistance and last week went to bed with infantile paralysis. Probably his only ill effect will be a weak right leg. Puzzling is the apparent immunity of medical men to infectious or contagious diseases. All last year only one physician died of infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, anthrax, parrot fever, or undulant fever. Of 2,952 U. S. doctors who died during the year (average age: 63.8-) heart disease killed 1,065, cerebralhemorrhage 365, pneumonia 312, hardening of the arteries 252, kidney ailments 237, cancer 236, blood poisoning 45, influenza...
Died. Dr. Frank Billings, 78, famed Chicago physician; of an internal hemorrhage after slipping on a rug in his home; in Chicago...
...having tears running down his cheeks. ... He was negligent, even slovenly, in his dress." He was Harvard's first (1806-09) Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory, the chair so long held by Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland who last month was ordered out of ancient Hollis Hall by his physician (TIME, Sept. 12). Like "Copey," he could stir youth with his public readings; like "Copey" he was crotchety and cantankerous on the platform. Only President's son to become President himself, he was even less popular than his father had been. Elected in spite of a popular majority against...
...Duff" Duffield was graduated the same year as the late Author Jesse Lynch Williams, the late Georgia Publisher Boudre Phinizy, Alonzo Church, vice-chancellor of New Jersey, Dr. Evan Evans, rich Manhattan physician. Lawyer Theodore Wilson Morris Jr., partner of Democrat John William Davis, and Varnum Lansing ("Wilkie") Collins, Princeton's Secretary. "Duff" was celebrated for an oration called "Scotch Granite," extolling Princeton's early President John Witherspoon. With generous gestures and booming voice, he delivered "Scotch Granite" whenever asked, passing it off many a time as extemporaneous. Because Edward Duffield's large bulk was mounted heavily upon large feet...