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Word: physicians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Louis Armstrong. The facts are somewhat different. The New York City medical examiner's record shows that he died of acute and chronic alcoholism, complicated by pneumonia. An attending physician called it "alcoholic insult to the brain." When Thomas arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Legend of Dylan Thomas | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

Dame Edith Sitwell has declared that she was so impressed by this royal command that for many years after, when told by a pulmonary physician to "say 99," the best she could bleat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tongue That Naked Goes | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Surgeon Ray has perfected the operation for a series of patients selected by Dr. Pearson, attending physician at Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. The procedure, no longer rated dangerous, takes only 1½ hours. Many patients are up and about the next day; within a week they report a loss of pain or even discomfort. Some who had been resigned to an early death have begun virtually new lives after hypophysectomy controlled the recurrence or spread of colonizing cancers. Maintenance medication is simple: regular tablets of cortisone and thyroid hormone suffice for most; one in four also needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope For New LIfe | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...Daly, "up would pop something important." In a 12th century Bible, they found the musical notations of a choir master, "all of great value to students of musical history." In one of the many copies of Galen's works, they found that marginal notes of a 13th century physician offered innumerable clues to the medical practice of his day. It soon became obvious that precious little could be skipped without first being thoroughly examined. Now, with funds from the Knights of Columbus, Daly and Donnelly have eight electric cameras going at the Vatican, as well as two big developers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Riches from Rome | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...Medical Mission Sisters, founded 30 years ago by a woman physician, the majority of whose members are all M.D.s, nurses or medical technicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Laborare Est Orare | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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