Word: physicians
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Confined to the prison hospital on a liquid diet prescribed by his physician, Russell issued a gloomy statement: "I am to be silenced for a time, perhaps forever, for who can tell how soon the great massacre will take place?" Fellow Prisoner Arnold Wesker, one of Britain's more promising and depressing new playwrights (Roots, Chicken Soup with Barley), was less pessimistic. Sentenced to one month, Wesker asked for and received pencils, paper and a partly finished manuscript. His request for a typewriter and secretary as well was turned down...
Salinger in 1946 was back in New York, rid not only of soldiering but of a brief, unsuccessful marriage to a European woman physician. Though the two were obviously incompatible, he later insisted that they had a telepathic link, were aware of the same events happening at the same time. He lived with his parents on Park Avenue and spent his nights in Greenwich Village. Gentle and humorous, he loved arguing about grammar and augmented his skinny frame with bar bells. Although this was years before Buddhism was peddled in supermarkets, he eagerly studied Zen, gave reading lists...
Known to most laymen as "shaking palsy," the condition was named for James Parkinson, an English physician who described it in 1817. An affliction that has claimed many famous victims,-it is marked by slowness and stiffness of movement, facial immobility, shuffling gait, forward-leaning posture, and "pill-rolling" movements with the fingers. Most characteristic is the tremor, usually of the limbs, sometimes of the head, especially noticeable at rest. It does not kill. Drugs relieve a few of the symptoms, but the only radical treatment is daring brain surgery pioneered by New York University's Dr. Irving Cooper...
Despite his pain, Mister Sam remained indomitable. After weeks of back twinges, he was finally prevailed upon to consult White House Physician Janet Travell, who administered Novocain to comfort him. When the treatment was over, Rayburn arose to put his trousers back on. Dr. Travell noticed that he was wobbling first on one foot, then on the other. She suggested that he sit down to finish dressing. Cried Sam Rayburn: "I am 79 years old, and no woman is going to tell me how to put on my pants...
Died. Dr. Willard Travell, 91, indefatigable link in five generations of Travell doctors, a pioneer in galvanism (electrical treatment of muscle disorders), who lived to see his daughter Janet become the White House's first female physician; in New Rochelle...