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...should be remembered that no intelligence test, however searching, can assure the acceptance of only those men who have a full endowment of a good doctor's qualities. No matter how ready a student may be in grasping medical facts, no matter how skillful with the scalpel, he may and often does lack any feeling for the sociological side of his practice, any bent for an old-fashioned understanding of human nature. The old family doctor was a bit rough-and-ready in his obstetrics when he raced with the stork along snowy roads in a one-horse shay...
...electrical knife perfected by Dr. George Austin Wyeth of Manhattan received great tribute as a cancer tool. It reams out tiny holes wherein the cut of a scalpel would be brutal...
...John B. Deaver, 76, since 1886 chief surgeon at Philadelphia's old-time German Hospital (now the Lankenau), Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University of Pennsylvania; of anemia; in Philadelphia. His specialty: appendectomy. One year he performed an average of six operations every weekday. He could manipulate his scalpel with both right and left hands. He was a surgeon's surgeon; he operated on more medical men than any other surgeon in the land. Once 160 physicians attended a dinner in his honor, given by men upon whom he had performed major operations. He was an anti-Prohibitionist...
...recent (Jan. 12) report on Cancer, TIME said that Professor Kelly called scalpel surgery "knife-&-fork." By "knife-&-fork" sur gery he meant electrosurgery, of which he is a vigorous advocate...
...rays and radium are potent weapons against the Cancer Ogre. They burn the turbulent, riotous cancer cells to death. But they may also kill healthy cells. Only expert technicians should fight cancer with X-rays or radium. (The same warning applies of course to the scalpel or cautery wielder.†) Research. Although the causes and ra tional treatment of Cancer are undetermined, a vast amount of research on the subject has piled up. Most of it is recent accumulation. First important international conference was held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. in 1926. The U. S. has nine first-rate research...