Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while last week, the most important instrument of Government was the thermometer that measured the ups and downs of presidential temperature. Even as the nation's most celebrated backache seemed on the mend, John Fitzgerald Kennedy came down with what the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell, described as a "mixed bacterial and viral infection...
...Physician Travell easily diagnosed the ailment as a respiratory infection caused by what she called "the two-days' virus." Fearful that the President's back injury would weaken his resistance, she gave her patient an oral dose of tetracycline (aureomycin under another name), a whopping intramuscular shot of penicillin (1.2 million units, or at least three times what most doctors would have prescribed for an otherwise healthy adult). She also gave him an extra dose of the corticosteroids he regularly takes to compensate for his longstanding adrenal insufficiency. The fever rose to a high...
Angry Press. All week long, Dr. Janet Travell, the White House physician, smilingly dodged the press. While the President was in Palm Beach, Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher was asked if a consulting doctor had been called in, answered, "No." But word soon leaked out that Dr. Preston Wade, a New York surgeon, had indeed flown to Palm Beach to examine the President's back...
...Calvin H. Plimpton, physician, president. Amherst College LL.D...
...Government House. Shoveling about ten spadefuls of dirt, he felt a twinge in his back but said nothing about it. During the next few days the pain grew worse and when, just before his trip to Europe, he went to rest at Hyannisport, he sent for the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell. She diagnosed the ailment as "a lumbosacral strain," treated the President with Novocain injections and hot packs. Out of public view, he used crutches to get about the big estate...