Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether the patient actually has heart trouble or not, the doctor can make him think he has by listening too long to the stethoscopic murmurings. And if there is something wrong, said Dr. Mills, the physician must still be careful not to exclaim "I never saw a worse heart!" Finally, there are the cases where a doctor misinterprets the symptoms or the results of his own examination. The one thing that all "iatrogenic" (doctor-caused) heart troubles have in common, said Dr. Mills, is that they are preventable...
...real 3-D, the problems are not so much esthetic as technical, scientific and medical. The object of all good stereoscopy is the fulfillment of the 26th Theorem of Euclid's Optics,* which was paraphrased by Poet-Physician Oliver Wendell Holmes back in 1859: "By means of these two different views of an object, the mind, as it were, feels around it and gets an idea of its solidity. We clasp an object with our eyes as with our arms . . . and then we know it to be more than a surface...
...hundred years after Scottish Physician James Lind published A Treatise of the Scurvy, proving that citrus juices would protect sailors, world-famed nutritionists gathered in Edinburgh at the unveiling of a plaque in his memory. Lind died 137 years before the secret of his triumph was found in vitamin C. The thrifty Scots never did much to honor him: his plaque was by courtesy of Sunkist...
...Reginald Fitz '06, assistant dean of the Medical School since 1947, died at his Brookline home Wednesday. The nationally-known physician was 68 years...
Improvising his methods as he went along, Gallaudet did teach Alice, and her physician father was so grateful that he decided Gallaudet should teach other Alices too. Though the deaf in those days were considered all but hopeless, Dr. Cogswell managed to scrape together about $2,000 from friends, even persuaded the Connecticut legislature to make the first state appropriation in the country for a humane institution. By 1817, he and Gallaudet had enough to open a school-the first school for the deaf...