Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit physician named Orville Owen went so overboard on his own cipher theory that he declared Bacon was not only Shakespeare but also such authors as Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and Robert Burton. Another Baconian found his inspiration in the fact that both Bacon and Shakespeare used the word honorificabili-tudinitatibus. He divided the word into two parts, spelled the first backward (BACIFIRONOH), declared this to be an anagram for FR BACONO. From the rest of the letters, he got HI LUDI TUITI NATI SIBI, which taken all together spelled "These Plays, produced by Francis Bacon, guarded for themselves...
...nations noted for their political turbulence in recent years accomplished an amazing election day reversal. On the same day, both the banana-land of Honduras and the Negro republic of Haiti went to the polls for their freest and most peaceful elections in decades. To further the coincidence, a physician with liberal notions was swept to power in each country...
...discourage its use," which should be only for "severe, life-threatening hemorrhage that cannot be controlled by other means," i.e., only for massive arterial bleeding, never for venous bleeding. Once in place, it should not be loosened every 15 minutes (as formerly advised), but left tight until a physician takes over. Alternative to the tourniquet: pressure by hand over the wound, or on the artery above the wound...
...give the subject a full shot of the antibiotic. Only one man had a mild unfavorable reaction to the test itself; of more than 1,300 others, 25 gave a danger-signal reaction. One of these, a soldier suspecting venereal disease, ignored the warning, went to a private physician and demanded penicillin. He got it. Within five minutes he was dead...
...thirds of a ward full" of students are in Stillman Infirmary this morning suffering from influenza, according to John C. Wells, assistant physician to the University Health Services. The number of cases in the Infirmary last night was reported...