Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most flagrant instances of irrational therapeutics," said Dr. Joseph A. Capps, Chicago, "is the abuse of the physician's license to prescribe alcohol. It is well-known that most of the liquor dispensed by druggists on physicians' prescriptions is not intended for the treatment of the sick. Whatever we, as individuals, may think of the Volstead Law, we are morally bound to restrict prescriptions to medicinal purposes. Selling one's prescription blanks to the druggist is worse than fee splitting, and should be cause for exclusion from membership in the American Medical Association!" Subcostalgia. The surgical section...
...Scholz,* New York A. C. sprinter, tripped the cinders with fairy feet for 20 9/10 twinkling seconds and won the semi-final 200-metre dash by a magnificent performance in which for the second time in one day he gave the world's record of 21 1/5 seconds a sick headache. In the finals this modern Mercury sped down the track in 21 seconds, tying his first effort on the previous day. By all odds, the gods had marked him down for an Olympic wreath...
...Pusey, emeritus professor of diseases of the skin in the University of Illinois, was inaugurated, having been made President-elect at the San Francisco session in 1923. In his President's address Dr. Pusey attacked socialization of the medical profession. The ancient responsibility of the profession?treat-ing the sick and injured?rather than reforms by organization, wholesale medical programs and government spoonfeeding, was held up as an ideal. President Coolidge was commended by Dr. Pusey for his "wise statesmanship" in "taking a definite stand against federal support" of a wide range of socialized activities...
Then you will learn that a man of intelligence will have trouble getting that bourgeois yet apocalyptic tone affected by all newspapers. Cheerfulness will keep breaking through on you, and you'll get sick of the chronique scandalous of the news columns and the common scolding of the editorials...
Continuing, he said: "Civilization can be measured by the advance of medicine. King Tut's tomb has revealed a civilization as rich as ours in every way but one?medicine. Since then we have divorced religion from the cure of the sick, although some people still think they can pray to God to make them well and then fold their hands and wait to be cured...