Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RHAZES, an Arabian physician, described the affliction in the 9th century A.D., mistaking it for a milder form of smallpox. Actually it was measles, a sometimes dangerous illness that has long been considered an unavoidable childhood disease. Now there is a good chance that the spots will be wiped out, thanks to the work of Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist John Franklin Enders, whose researches also made the Salk polio vaccine possible. For Enders' own progress report, see MEDICINE, Vaccine for Measles...
...Schulte national chain of cigar stores, was making rapid strides in his father's footsteps when, at 32, he fell ill with thrombophlebitis-inflammation of leg veins, with formation of clots that could be fatal if they reached the lungs. That was 20 years ago. Schulte's physician, Dr. Irving Wright, casting around for a drug to prevent clot formation (none had yet been proved effective in man), appealed to Nobel Prizewinner Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He wanted some of the heparin that University of Toronto laboratories had just begun to extract from beef lungs...
Professional assistants aid doctors today, and this tends to balance the small physician-population ratio, since the doctors can do more work. Quicker medical methods and better medicines make doctors' work more efficient...
...last week Sir Winston Churchill, as he often does on his Riviera holidays, lunched with Aristotle Onassis aboard Onassis' yacht Christina in Monte Carlo harbor. Sir Winston ate and drank as heartily as ever. When he reported feeling ill that afternoon, the physician who usually treats him at Monte Carlo, Dr. David M. Roberts, thought it might be indigestion. Next morning it was clear that whatever ailed Churchill was more than indigestion. The old warrior abandoned his plans to meet Lady Churchill, arriving from London at the Nice airport, and took to his bed. An eddy of concern welled...
...Cliff. Born the son of a diet-faddist physician on a ranch near Palm Springs, Calif., Gibson grew up haunted with "recurrent dreams about clawing my way up the face of a cliff." At 18 he clawed his way onto the old Los Angeles Record because "at the time I was under the misapprehension that being on an afternoon paper meant that you worked only in the afternoon." Ever since, through numberless odd jobs on newspapers and in radio, he has been getting up "at the crack of dawn and hating every morning...