Word: physicians
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Empress of Rome. Born in 1567, the son of a physician of Cremona, Claudio Monteverdi quickly nudged the Italian Renaissance out of its hidebound musical stance. As a young master of the madrigal under the patronage of the ducal Gonzaga family of Mantua, he met with success but grew weary of music's rigid rules. The seesaw violin bored him, so he invented the tremolo and pizzicato...
Died. Lord Evans, 60, Windsor court physician since 1949, a Welsh kidney specialist who signed the death certificate of King George VI, attended the births of Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and Princess Anne, in 1956 advised Prime Minister Anthony Eden to resign during the Suez crisis for reasons of health; of cancer; in London...
...Electrocardiograms normally require that the patient go to a physician's office or a hospital, although in some cases a heavy ECG machine is taken to the patient. Now Computer Instruments Corp. of Hempstead, L.I., has miniaturized the ECG with 24 transistors. The result is a box that is crammed with components. But it is little more than 8 in. square and less than 6 in. thick, weighing only 10 Ibs., and it can be plugged into any 110-volt AC line. It makes its diagnostic tracings on standard ECG paper and records all the standard ECG information...
Last week the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced that its 1963 award of $10,000 for basic medical research will go to a man who is not a physician, but who has developed a technique for discovering those important differences. The man is the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Lyman Creighton Craig; the technique is called countercurrent distribution, or C.C.D...
...Last week Dodger Physician Robert Woods disclosed that Koufax's finger had been saved by the use of four drugs: Coumadin (an anticoagulant), fibrinolysin (used to dissolve clots in blood vessels), Ilidar and Priscoline (both used to dilate arteries...