Word: potts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hugo Pott was too successful too soon. Young Englishman of low beginnings but with a face that might have been his fortune, he had made money by writing a succession of theatrical hits.* London lionized him nearly to death: he never got enough sleep, was worn out by the continuous effort to be nice to everybody, not to let his work interfere with his social engagements. The story opens with his departure into the country for a weekend in no sense a vacation, for Hugo knew exactly why he had been asked, what person he was expected to amuse...
...profession busy. Last week a National Conference on Nomenclature of Disease met in Manhattan and considered a numerical system to make it easier for one doctor to know exactly what another is talking about. Current naming systems are confusing because one system calls an ailment after its discoverer, as Pott's Disease; another system calls the same disease according to the causative agent and the part affected, as tuberculosis of the spine; a third according to the pathological findings and the part affected, as vertebral caries. They all mean the same...