Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lone bandit yesterday looted the home of Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., Associate Physician to the University Health Services. Entering Wells' home on Nightcap Lane in Weston, the burglar bound and gagged Mrs. Wells, two small children, and the maid...
With a Price List. All of this could be classified as oldfashioned, aggressive journalism until the Pope's physician, Professor Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi-the same who offered the photos of papal calisthenics-entered the story. A mild-mannered oculist, Dr. Galeazzi-Lisi first met the Pope when he was still Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican's 54-year-old Secretary of State, suffering from eye-strain headaches, which Galeazzi-Lisi relieved. When Pacelli was made Pope, he appointed his friend Galeazzi-Lisi as archiater,* or papal physician...
...Cardinals banned him from the Vatican. As the storm of censure mounted, the greatest cry was appropriately against the money-hungry doctor rather than the story-hungry press. Milan's daily Il Giorno (circ. 150,000), coming to the astonished realization that the Pope's chief physician was not a tried clinician, asked what was, perhaps, the most startling question raised by the whole furor: "How could Pius XII entrust his health for so many years to a quack...
...Showing a higher sense of propriety than the physician, the publications that accepted the pictures decided not to use them...
...From the Greek archi and iatros, or "first physician," a title given to court physicians by both the ancient Greeks and Romans...