Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little Ozark town of Steelville, Mo. (pop. 1,013), a trim, white-mous-tached old physician was busy last week trying to prove that most of his life had been misspent. For more than 40 years, Dr. John Zahorsky had specialized in pediatrics and practiced in big St. Louis hospitals. Now 79, Dr. Zahorsky was back in his old home town, bent on proving that an alert country doctor can do as much with a minimum of modern equipment as a passel of specialists with all the shiny facilities of a big-city hospital...
...surgical operations are older than those performed for cataract of the eye. As early as about 2000 B.C., the Code of Hammurabi ordained: "If a physician . . . open a tumor of the eye with a bronze lancet and save [the patient's] sight, he shall have ten shekels of silver ... If a physician open an abscess of the eye with a bronze lancet and the patient lose his eye, the physician shall have his fingers cut off." In his monumental monograph, Surgery of Cataract (Lippincott; $30), New York Ophthalmologist Daniel B. Kirby traces the history of operations for cataract...
...President, said his physician, needed a change, anyway. His day was long (5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.), and though it was broken up by a nap after lunch, as often as not there was a briefcase full of evening homework. Harry Truman, said his doctor, was down to 173 Ibs.-about right-but he was "under a terrible strain. Ordinarily, he can pass things off, political battles and things of that kind. But this [Korea] is different...
Towering twice as big as life were melodramatic figures of Copernicus, Paracelsus, the 16th Century alchemist-physician, and Fischer von Erlach, the Austrian baroque architect. One full-blown nude stood nearly seven yards tall in her bare feet. But with his biggest booster gone, Thorak found his reputation had already shrunk to less than life size. The public sniffed at his glibly traditional sculpture, complained that his 12-foot Paracelsus (1940), intended for the local railway plaza, was not worthy of Salzburg...
...been Governor Thurmond," said the deep voice, "I would never have appointed the Nigger physician of Charleston, Dr. T. C. McFall, to displace your beloved white physician [on the Medical Advisory Board]." At that point, sounds of dissent rose from 400 Negroes in the bleachers. Johnston bellowed: "Make those Niggers keep quiet...