Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's Lancet, London's Dr. William H. J. Summerskill indulged in a tour de force of long-range diagnosis came to the conclusion that the fool may have been right. Physician Summerskill worked it out this way: Aguecheek was drunk every night. His tippling could easily have caused cirrhosis of the liver Even Sir Toby Belch, no pathologist but a fellow tosspot, suspected this: "For Andrew, if he were opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy...
Another conspicuous sign was the Ingalinelia case. Among the Argentines of various political colorings rounded up on June 16. was one Dr. Juan Ingalinella, a physician and an admitted Communist. According to the police in his home city of Rosario. he was released the day after his arrest. But his wife never saw him again. All over the nation, Argentines demanded, in ever louder tones, that the police produce Ingalinella. Radical deputies in the federal Congress insistently called for an investigation...
...with it. He was afraid to ride, used a special knife-fork gadget at meals, and exercised his right arm relentlessly to make up for the weakness of the other. As if one physical handicap were not enough, he suffered from a "scrofulous" ear sickness that made a court physician advise an insurance company not to write a policy on his life. Later, many highly placed Germans said privately that their Emperor was insane, and a high official of the Foreign Office suggested to the British ambassador that he "treat the Kaiser as either a child or a fool...
When Actor Victor Moore's father lay on his deathbed, he looked up and saw a strange physician hovering over him "I know you're a bum doctor, but you look like Tony Hart," the dying man muttered and closed his eyes in trusting contentment. Ned Harrigan's fans were no less staunch. A copy editor for the New York Telegraph added this personal postscript to a news column on Harrigan: "I'd rather hear Ned Harrigan sing one verse of the Mulligan Guards than Caruso warble his entire repertoire." Harrigan and Hart the merry partners...
...laid him low would not be stilled. "I'm tired of female talk," Johnson snapped at his nurses. "I want to see my staff." Before long, his aides were not only traipsing in and out of his 16th-floor room, but had usurped the office of the floor physician to carry on round-the-clock political business by telephone...