Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catherine thought so highly of Potemkin that she exempted him from her standard practice of having a prospective new adjutant general first inspected by her Scottish physician, John Rogerson, for any signs of social diseases, and then "tried out" by her friend, Countess Praskovia Bruce, who is known in St. Petersburg as leprouveuse (literally, "the tester...
...benign expression, and a mission that even the Indians have noticed. They call him Puc-puggy (the flower hunter). William Bartram is collecting and classifying America's plants and seeds. He sends the most interesting specimens, or his drawings of them, to John Fothergill, a botanist and physician in London who is paying Bartram's expenses plus ? 50 a year. What the current troubles between the Colonies and England will do to this arrangement is uncertain, though Bartram never gives politics a thought. He moves totally rapt in the world of nature...
...When Bryant's tests were reported to the American Philosophical Society, the A.P.S. formed a committee to arrange with the "owner of a torpedo or torporific eel [to] determine the nature of the shocks which it communicates." The offered price: ? 3. Physician Hugh Williamson later discovered, among other things, that the eel can stun fish at a distance, and "it can give a small shock, a severe one or not at all, just as circumstances may require...
When Boston Clergyman Cotton Mather learned of the new technique, he tried to persuade local doctors to inoculate as many citizens as possible during the epidemic of 1721. But the city's leading physician called inoculation an "infatuation" and denounced as heathen any treatment adapted from "the Musselmen and faithful people of the prophet Mahomet." Only Mather's friend Dr. Zabdiel Boylston agreed to try the new tactic. Complained Mather: "Not only the physician who began the experiment but I also am the object of the [people's] fury." One opponent of inoculation threw a bomb through...
Whether Hays had purposefully tried to end his life-and his agony -was not immediately clear. Richard Phillips, Hays' family physician and friend, had prescribed Dalmane, a standard "hypnotic agent" or soporific, because the besieged Congressman was understandably tense. Hays also had been eating little and was suffering from diverticulitis, an intestinal ailment...