Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Hoke wanted his son to become a civil engineer like himself. "Mike" obeyed, took a C. E. degree at the University of North Carolina. Having thus complied with family authority, he proceeded to study medicine at the University of Virginia, to establish himself in Atlanta as a general surgeon. Restless, he went to Boston for post-graduate study in orthopedics, returned to Atlanta to become the South's first specialist in that branch of medicine. Self-reliant Dr. Hoke made his own steel braces on his own blacksmith's anvil. With an income...
...blood vessels. The arteries were stained red. the veins blue. Since this was the only figure of its kind in the world and this was its first public appearance anywhere, appropriate ceremonies were held and an informal physiology lesson was radiocast. Present were Dr. Dean Dewitt Lewis, surgeon-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews (dinosaur eggs) and Samuel Higby Camp, surgical bandage manufacturer of Jackson, Mich...
...certainty that none of his "patients" could sue him for gossiping about their ailments, James Kemble, an amiable Harley Street surgeon, last week published his postmortem diagnoses of various historical personages...
...Startling innovations by Edward VIII last week were appointment to the Royal Household of an osteopath and an aviator. Officially styled "Manipulative Surgeon to His Majesty," muscular and dynamic Sir Morton Smart has been for 16 years his royal master's chief rubdown man, recently boasted to a Parliamentary commission that nine jockeys who rode in the last Grand National Steeplechase are his patients, including the winner. Cracked Orthopedic Surgeon Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart of the British Medical Association last week: "Osteopathy is brute force-an ignorant American stunt...
...advice His Majesty acted last week in appointing Mr. Lyons to the Order of Companions of Honor. Popular was a posthumous gesture by King Edward toward the late Rudyard Kipling, who repeatedly refused a knighthood. The doctor who operated upon Poet Kipling in his last hours (TIME, Jan. 27), Surgeon Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, received a knighthood...