Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year old physician, carrying an Eland-tail fly wisk and an intricately carved staff of authority, told a Winthrop House audience...
Figueres' father, a Spanish physician, immigrated to Costa Rica at the turn of the century. The family decided early that young Jose would follow his father into the physical sciences. But reluctant to study medicine, the 18-year-old boy journeyed to Boston to get a taste of the United States. He attended courses at M.I.T., studying electricity and engineering, and worked on the side checking automatic scales for pocket money. Increasingly, however, the social sciences came to interest the young Costa Rican. "Herbert Spencer," he reminisces fondly, "taught me English and the Boston Public Library is my real alma...
...A.M.A. Journal, Du Pont Statistician Sidney Pell and Physician C. Anthony D'Alonzo report that presidents, vice presidents and plant managers have an annual heart-attack rate of only 2.2 per 1,000 while the manual workers' rate is 3.2 Du Pont's clerical workers have a rate of 4.0 per 1,000. Among those listed as clerical workers, evidently, are many who have failed of promotion to executive status and are suffering the stress of frustration...
...From Moses to Moses." Maimonides lived at a time (1135-1204) when it was still possible for one man to aspire to master all knowledge, and he was equally famed as philosopher, physician, and interpreter of the Jewish Law. Of him it was said: "From Moses to Moses there is none like unto Moses." He was born in the Spanish city of Cordova, but Moslem persecution drove his family to Morocco, Palestine, and finally to Egypt, where the Sultan Sal ad in provided refuge for Jews who were persecuted by other Islamic regimes...
Maimonides was physician to the Sul tan's court, and legend has it that Rich ard the Lion-Hearted tried to lure him away from Saracen service during the Third Crusade. One of his century's medical pioneers, Maimonides wrote treatises on curing asthma, indigestion, hemorrhoids and various male sexual disorders. He was also appointed head of Egypt's Jewish communities, and wrote the 14-volume Mishneh Tor ah, a masterful, encyclopedic codification of Jewish Law that summarized 15 centuries of Talmudic interpretation...