Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practitioner from Boston, who was with him when he died. Suffering great fatigue and sleepiness, sometimes regaining consciousness enough to confer with his staff in his bedroom, he was apparently improving, relapsed on the night of his Baltimore speech. After his death at 2 a.m., the practitioner called a physician. The coroner, summoned where death occurs in the absence of a physician, certified that he had died of uremic poisoning and a heart and kidney condition...
Under Medicine ("Fatal Tonsillectomy") in the Aug. 26 issue of TIME, you reported the death of Walter P. E. Freiwald Jr., "from too much ether in his lungs and brain," after the administration of an anesthesia by Dr. Charles T. Markert, osteopathic physician...
...jumped Physician Albert Frederick Ruger Andresen of Brooklyn. Since there is really no medical treatment for ulcers, said he with brilliant logic, there are no medical failures. Some ulcers heal of themselves. Both physicians and surgeons worry too much about stomach acids, he continued, instead of considering a patient's temperament and general condition. And operation on desperate cases which have not been doctored up "is little short of murder...
Medieval Arabian physicians foreshadowed Boston's famed Dr. Stanley Cobb in believing that much of arthritis is psychological. In the 9th Century, the great physician Rhazes attended an emir who was so badly crippled that he could not walk. First Rhazes ordered the emir's best horse to be saddled and brought into the court yard. Rhazes gave the emir hot showers and a stiff drink. Then, brandishing a knife, he cursed his patient, threatened to kill him. Furious, the crippled man sprang to his feet. With his patient hot on his trail, the doctor leaped...
...chunks of debris had been shoveled out of the main courtroom, the magistrate resumed trial of usual petty police-court cases - drunkenness, pocket-picking, etc. A 74-year-old widow, Mrs. Amelia Graham, was hauled into Hendon Police Court on a drunken-driving charge. She proved that her physician was having her take a tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours to steady her nerves against the Blitz, notwithstanding was fined $80. One Alfred Jack Perry, 34, was arraigned at Stratford-on-Avon for walking past a time bomb against police orders. "This was sheer obstinacy!" boomed the mag istrate, fined...