Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small ceremony at his home in Günsbach, France, 77-year-old Albert Schweitzer, physician, musician, philosopher and missionary, was presented with the first Paracelsus Medal (in honor of Philippus Paracelsus, 16th century alchemist and physician whose real name was Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) awarded by the German Physicians' Congress for "outstanding services...
...though scientists might be well on the way to finding a safe, cheap contraceptive to be taken by mouth. The journal Science, grey with age and scholarly respectability, gave its lead position and a 12½-page spread to the preliminary findings of Dr. Benjamin F. Sieve, a Boston physician, on what he calls "a new antifertility factor." On its face, the report looked promising indeed, but scientists who have spent many years looking for an oral contraceptive were far from satisfied...
...country does not have a single native graduate engineer, architect, chemist or agricultural expert; in all Ethiopia there is only one native physician. Selassie must rely on foreign help to bolster his ministries. Americans, who predominate among his advisers, govern the national bank, edit the official newspaper, run the nationalized airline, and direct highway construction. A Swedish military mission trains the Imperial Guard and a fledgling air force...
...first entries in 1642. At this date, students were prohibited from frequenting the "society of such men as lead an unjust and dissolute life," and from taking tobacco, "unless permitted by the President, with the consent of their parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician, and then in a sober and private manner...
...Moore (who specializes in abdominal surgery) and the dozens of like-minded colleagues who dominated the surgeons' meeting last week will never use it if they think it can be avoided. And, except in emergency, they will never use it without careful consultation with the patient's physician, an interview with the patient himself, and a full-team study of the results of many laboratory tests made...