Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several shades tanner and half an inch slimmer in the waist than when he left Washington six weeks before, the President was "delighted" with his stay in Colorado and, according to his physician, "never felt better." But his vacation had been only a partial escape from the cares and chores of office. During the six weeks, he received 152 official visitors, signed 111 bills and 318 other state documents...
...Hans Sloane, a prosperous 18th century physician who developed a passion for collecting, scurried over the world like a pack rat, assembling books, manuscripts, Roman, Egyptian and Asiatic antiquities, coins, medals and works of art. Sloane's friends (among them: Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, Alexander Pope) sent him odd things from everywhere. One friend, Poet Thomas Hearne, versified that he had collected for the good doctor...
...supervision of all patients. Also present are the resident psychiatrist, with more than three years' experience and training at the clinic; 13 assistant psychiatrists at various stages of three-to five-year courses as residents. Here an assistant psychiatrist is assigned to be the patient's personal physician during his stay, and the patient's daily routine is prescribed. He can be certain of excellent care, night & day. There are 74 graduate nurses, 20 student nurses and 25 psychiatric aides. Each psychiatrist treats a maximum of ten patients -in contrast to many state hospitals, where a single...
Favor Unreturned. While he was still Crown Prince, young Mohammed Reza did a kind act that was to lead, after many turnings, to his own undoing last week. A young physician begged the Crown Prince to take pity on the physician's father, who had been exiled by the Reza Shah, and was dying. Mohammed Reza brought the old man back from exile, thus saving his life, and won his pledge of eternal devotion. The old man was Mohammed Mossadegh...
Perhaps the biggest of them is conversational. Despite the tremendous increase of talk about sex after World War I, public and printed discussion was accepted only gradually. As late as the '30s the New York Times refused ads for Ideal Marriage, by a highly respectable Dutch physician, Theodoor H. Van de Velde, who spoke of sex with great candor but also with an almost romantic reverence No single event did more for open discussion of sex than the Kinsey report, which got such matters as homosexuality, masturbation, coitus and orgasm into most papers and family magazines...