Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generally good health conditions [prevailed] throughout the U. S. [last year];' reported Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service last week...
Director Grace Abbott's militancy made her almost forget her 52nd birthday last week. She was irate because she learned almost at the last minute that a committee of the conference, a committee which Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service headed and to which she belonged, was prepared to recommend that child hygiene, maternity and infancy work of her Children's Bureau be transferred to the Public Health Service...
...Surgeon General Cumming's committee decided not to recommend the transfer. But the proposal is not dead. A "continuation committee" of the conference will weigh the matter for future report to conference members...
...their midst, taking notes at lectures, living and eating at the Students' Union. Last week came the explanation. Student Margaret Gorton, studying to be a dramatic instructor, had fallen ill, would have to miss several weeks of classwork. Her mother, Mrs. James T. Gorton, wife of a Yonkers surgeon, had come to Boston not only to nurse her daughter but to interview Dean Arthur Herbert Wilde. She would do the girl's work for her, she explained, and relay it to the hospital. Dean Wilde consented. There is now no danger of Daughter Margaret's not receiving...
When he was surgeon general of the orthopedic section of the American Expeditionary Forces' medical service, he noted a strange coincidence. Many a shell-broken soldier lay unattended in the fields until his lacerations were alive with maggots. Every one should have died of blood poisoning. But, remarkably, many recovered quickly...