Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will have a different physician on call each night," the psychiatrist said, "so that we won't have to take any chance about the doctor being too tired to do an efficient...
...chasing women; he kept out of the home and let his wife "do anything she liked." What she liked, according to Magarshack, was to make her household resemble the Czarist government as closely as possible. She gave her serfs court titles: "Maid of Honor," "Court Chamberlain." When her family physician came to treat her little adopted daughter, he was told: "Remember! If you don't cure her . . . Siberia!" Mother Turgenev discouraged marriage among her serfs because she liked their undivided attention for herself, so her women bore illegitimate children instead and either drowned them at birth in the estate...
...last week. President Eisenhower entered Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver for his annual physical checkup, stayed overnight for the finish of laboratory tests and examinations. The doctors' verdict: "Very favorable.'' No detailed medical report was released, and one Army physician huffily refused to give details. Said he facetiously: "We found nothing wrong. You can say he does not have ingrown toenails...
...Letter from Newport. In the English colonies along the American coast, Jewish immigrants found a freedom beyond anything they had known in Europe. On paper the colonies severely restricted religious freedom, but the restrictions were seldom enforced against Jews. In 17th century Maryland, a stiff-necked Jewish physician named Jacob Lombroso was tried for blasphemy (he had publicly denied the divinity of Christ), but though he was plainly guilty under the law, the court set the case aside. Lombroso continued to live and prosper in Maryland...
...Paul Niehans, a stony-faced, ramrod-straight Swiss physician told it, his theory and practice of "cellular therapy" sounded plausible enough. Thirty years ago he had begun transplanting parts of animals (glands, and organs such as liver and kidneys) into human beings to correct dwarfism, tetany,* and other disorders resulting from underactive glands. But in 1931 he was confronted with a woman dying of tetany and too weak for the operation. So Niehans injected a mass of cells from the parathyroid gland of a freshly slaughtered calf...