Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Clode summoned the Royal Physician. But the Royal Physician was ill: he was busy taking his own temperature and then shaking down the thermometer without looking at it. "As a physician," he explained to the King, "I must take my temperature every three hours, but as a patient, I must not be told what...
President Truman last week appointed as his personal physician an Army doctor who has never treated him, but who happens to be from Missouri too. Tall, handsome Colonel Wallace H. Graham, 34, who went to the University of Missouri, where he was a boxer and track star, got his medical degree at Creighton University in Omaha, and studied surgery at Harvard, Chicago, Budapest, Szeged (Hungary) and Vienna. He went into practice in Kansas City with his father, Dr. J. W. Graham, who is a friend of Harry Truman's. On the side, young Dr. Graham continued surgical research...
Some Shinagawa patients were used as guinea pigs for incredible experimental injections by Captain Hisikichi Tokoda, a 29-year-old Japanese physician. Dr. Harold W. Keschner, an Army officer captured at Bataan, described Captain Tokoda's medieval brews. Into tubercular men he injected an acid mixed with infected bile. Once he squeezed a milk of ground soy beans into the jugular veins of two men. All died. Into the bloodstreams of others he injected mixtures of castor oil and sulphur, of acid, ether and blood plasma. Despite all this, Shinagawa was regarded as a "showplace" and was proudly exhibited...
...Chateau Frontenac, a U.S. physician named Dr. George Dows Cannon wired ahead for $12-a-day accommodations. He did not mention that he and his wife were Negroes. When they showed up, they were given a fine room overlooking the St. Lawrence. For three days they had no trouble. Then, as they waited for a table in the hotel's main dining room, a headwaiter told them: "We cannot serve...
...Chiang's health has greatly improved. She originally left China on the advice of her American physician, who told her she would never recover in Chungking's humid climate. At that time there were also rumors of a rift with the Gissimo, but they were effectively spiked. When cool weather sets in again, she intends to go back and resume her place as China's first lady...