Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom he devoutly believed had reserved the most painful death a man can die. Death came to him slowly last week with the agony that crept from his chest around his diaphragm, up into his neck and down to the tips of his slender, beautiful fingers. His physician, Professor Cesare Frugoni, had moved him from his bed to a chair to give him an injection, then had been afraid he could not survive the effort of being carried back to bed. He was propped up in the chair when Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena went...
Death came last week to the Colonial Secretary and Conservative Leader in the House of Lords, Baron Lloyd. Following a chill, he lay ill three weeks under the care of the King's physician, Lord Horder. Not until he died was it revealed that the 61-year-old Baron had flown repeatedly over Germany as a bomber navigator. A friend guessed that Lord Lloyd's death might have been hastened by an old infection from which Lloyd suffered during World War I while serving with Lawrence in Arabia. Prime Minister Winston Churchill named Brewery Scion Walter Edward Guinness...
...International Physiological Congress in Stockholm, some 15 years ago, Monkey-Gland Specialist Serge Voronoff presented a paper on rejuvenation. Ajax denounced him with prompt violence. "I know the case of a 'rejuvenated man' in the United States," he began, "who felt young until he receifed his physician's bill. Dot vas so high he suddenly felt old again.'' Voronoff stalked out in a dudgeon, swore he would never attend another meeting where Dr. Carlson was present. But Ajax got a burst of applause and an enthusiastic kiss from a bearded French scientist...
...greatest physician of all times" was Hippocrates of Cos, a Greek who lived in the golden Age of Pericles. He was the first doctor in Western history to: 1) take the practice of medicine out of the realm of magic, the hands of priests; 2) draw up a set of lofty ethical rules for doctors (among them the Hippocratic oath,* still followed by physicians today); 3) make careful scientific observations (he published a classic description of tuberculosis); 4) let nature take its course, instead of using drastic purges and operations. Nevertheless, he strayed from the scientific path in originating...
...naturalism of Hippocrates was frozen into a dogmatic system by the Roman physician Galen, who lived in the early days of the Christian era. A great showman, Galen often performed experiments on animals in public theatres. He wrote over 400 books. Because of his enormous practice, he was hated by other Roman doctors. Galen believed that the body was a perfect machine, dominated by the soul, set in motion by God. "Galen," said Dr. Castiglioni, "knows everything, has an answer for everything; he confidently pictures the origin of all diseases and outlines their cure." He perpetuated "fundamental errors," and "produced...