Word: physicians
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BEAZLE: It was nothing, really. We medical men have been confounding patients for years. As far back as 1699, the physician and poet Samuel Garth wrote: "The patient's ears remorseless he assails/Murders with jargon where his medicine fails." Still, physical medicine is nothing compared with psychiatry. There's where we Jargonists truly have our day. Suppose a man loses his wife and is unable to love anyone because he is sad. What do I tell...
...Melvin Belli, sought to prove that the kind of help rendered by Whittaker was standard. The defense involved the showing of models and color slides of gory operations, and the calling of big-name medical witnesses. A key issue was whether Dr. Stevenson had tried to get a licensed physician to assist him, at least in cases other than crash emergencies. Of the three cases before the jury, one was such an emergency. On this and one other count, the jury found both defendants not guilty. But on one, involving a case in which Dr. Stevenson had time to call...
...contrast, Coppolino turned out to be a first-rate courtroom performer. In two hours on the stand, he bolstered his case with cool, quiet testimony that Keuper could not shake. Coppolino admitted his affair with Mrs. Farber, but insisted that he was a conscientious physician to Farber on the day he died-giving him proper treatment for a sudden heart ailment, pleading in vain that he go to a hospital. Neatly dressed in a dark suit, as professional in his manner as a medical-school lecturer, Coppolino even turned to the jury to give an onomatopoetic description of how irregular...
...group of symptoms that have defied both explanation and effective treatment. However it is labeled, the disorder usually starts with a ringing in the ears (tinnitus), followed by impaired hearing, spells of dizziness accompanied by unbearable nausea, and severe vomiting. Meniere's, named for French Physician Prosper Meniere (1799-1862) who first described it, is so distressing that doctors are eager to try anything that will give their patients a measure of relief. Some get help from drugs, including histamine solutions, which have to be infused into a vein; others are subjected to drastic surgical procedures...
From the Formula. The base for these royalty riches was laid in 1881 when Dr. Joseph Joshua Lawrence, a St. Louis physician who worked out the secret formula for Listerine, decided to retire. The canny doctor sold his formula for Listerine and, four years later, for another remedy called Lithiated Hydrangea, to fellow St. Louisan Jordan W. Lambert. In the deal, Lawrence got a royalty for each gross (144 bottles) of Listerine that was first set at $20; this was later scaled down to $6 on sales of either preparation. Lithiated Hydrangea has disappeared-but Listerine sales spiraled after Lambert...