Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Andrew Bonar Law, who resigned the Premiership last June, was reported to be confined to his bed with serious throat trouble. A bulletin, signed by Sir Thomas Horder, famed cancer specialist, and Dr. Gould May said " the patient was suffering from an exacerbation of his recent feverish chill, necessitating continued confinement...
...Crile is known the world over not only as a super-surgeon, but as an incisive and original thinker in biology and social psychology. He is a foremost specialist in surgery of the thyroid gland. He has devised methods of avoiding surgical shock by a combination of local and gen- eral anaesthetics (nitrous oxide and novocaine) which he calls " anoci-association." He studied in Ohio, Vienna, London, Paris, and has won more medical prizes than he can stagger under. During the War he was a Colonel in charge of a base hospital. In peace time he is a professor...
Charles Evans Hughes: "A Chicago nose specialist said that upon my face and upon that of Miss Mary Pickford reposed the two most perfect nasal appendages in the world. 'Miss Pickford's,' said the doctor, 'is approached only by that of Diana, Roman goddess of the chase.' He stated that mine was 'of the perfect Grecian type...
...meeting is followed out. Although the tree will be carefully cut up and a piece sent to each state of the country and to the District of Columbia and Alaska, chips, perhaps sawdust, will be available for the nervy collector. The tree has been pronounced dead by a tree specialist and its overhanging limbs a menace. The seal of the city of Cambridge will be engraved on one side of each piece of wood sent out while an appropriate inscription will be on the other...
Still another "rejuvenation" method is exploited by Dr. William Held, of Chicago, who has returned from three months' study with Dr. Abder- halden, German gland specialist. He uses chimpanzees, but does not transplant their glands. The substance which brings on senility in humans, he says, is "cholin" (a toxic crystalline base allied to the bile). The chimpanzees are "decholinized" by a special process. They have not been penalized by the vices of civilization. Injections of this serum are claimed to restore the conditions of normal youth in the human body. In the near future, says Dr. Held...