Word: physicians
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There is a little item in a recent issue of the "New Yorker," easily overlooked, but significant just the same. Seems that a friend of the publication had occasion to visit Boston to see his favorite physician about a case of ulcers. Well, our subject, arriving at South Station, forthwith boarded a cab and was whisked to the Copley. What happened to him in the taxicab need not concern us here. To the ear of the trained Bostonian, however, the combination of "South Station" and "Copley" lacks a certain logical connection...
Reported his personal physician, Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire: on his 62nd birthday, Franklin Roosevelt was in better health than at any time since he has been in the White House...
...People who get diseases that are more frequent in the opposite sex are likely to have many of that sex's physical and mental characteristics. The doctors mean no insult by this-they say it is the gynic (female) factors in a man that make him a good physician...
...Irish urologist. Louella married him 15 years ago, shortly after he dived into the Bimini Baths on Vermont Avenue when they had no water in them, broke his neck but saved his life by holding his own head in place until another doctor came. Today Docky is head studio physician at 20th Century...
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table) wrote three novels which have been widely unread. They reflected the scientific interests of their author, a physician, teacher of anatomy at Harvard, dean of its Medical School. Recently a psychoanalyst made the suggestion that Holmes's novels were perhaps the most original and significant of all his works, establishing the wiry little Bostonian as the godfather of modern psychoanalysis. Holmes, he found, discovered the "unconscious" (sometimes called "subconscious") 25 years before Sigmund Freud...