Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a patient wait, death came last week to Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist, physician, philosopher, poet, ironist, historian, raconteur. At 61, he died of chronic leukemia, a slow-moving, mysterious disease of the blood for which there is no known cure...
...York World's Fair, in the Medicine & Public Health Building, is a high-speed X-ray machine. Visitors line up for white jackets, have an X-ray of their chests for $1. Results are sent to the family physician. Last week the machine had a startling story to tell: of 11,234 supposedly healthy persons examined last year, 3.3% were active (clinically significant) tuberculosis cases-six times the national rate...
...EXAMINATION OR VERIFICATION OF THE CLAIMS THAT COMMERCIAL PROMOTERS WANT TO MAKE FOR HER [TIME, Aug. 19]. IN MY OPINION NO REPUTABLE PHYSICIAN WILL LEND HIS NAME TO SUCH EXPLOITATION...
...morgue's second floor the coroners found a different kind of entertainment. There is the laboratory of one of the top-flight U. S. medical detectives: testy, sharp-eyed Dr. William Scott Wadsworth. During his 41 years as coroner's physician. Dr. Wadsworth, known to reporters as "Waddie," has examined 10,094 bodies. He has a tremendous assortment of cartridges (1,500 of 40 different makes), 360,000 filing cards on poison (largest collection in the world), razors and knives, plaster casts of teeth, hanks of hair, chunks of skull perforated with bullet holes. In his office...
...young Freiwald's pulse was slowing down. Frantically the two men applied artificial respiration, but to no avail. At 10:04 they called the police for oxygen tanks and a Pulmotor. In six minutes the police arrived. For two hours they worked over the boy, until the county physician pronounced him dead. The osteopaths insisted on continuing resuscitation until finally, a little after 3 o'clock, they gave up. Walter Freiwald had died from too much ether in his lungs and brain...