Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city surgeon states that there is a deplorable amount of venereal disease in the city and that numerous high-school students have contracted disease in the 'redlight' district, usually following a period of drinking in the neighboring taverns. He states, however, that disease contracted from the prostitutes is not nearly so frequent as from the 'pickups' who frequent the night clubs and dance halls where liquor is sold...
...From Surgeon James Tate Mason of Seattle, who was to become its president next week, the American Medical Association expected a vigorous administration. Dr. Mason, 53, co-founder of Seattle's prosperous Mason Clinic and Virginia Mason Hospital, expected to apply his hard business sense to the current problems of U. S. doctors, which are chiefly economic...
...Base Hospital Unit which he organized in Boston and carried to France; and as "senior consult ant in neurosurgery" for the American Expeditionary Forces. They tell of his interest in gunshot wounds of the head (''g.s.w. skull"), a military accident with which he as a brain surgeon was particularly concerned. Eight brain opera tions a day was his goal...
Meeting in New Orleans last week, the National Tuberculosis Association, a high-powered money-collecting organization whose publicity has done much to reduce tuberculosis deaths in the U. S. to 70,000 a year, announced that it was giving its Trudeau Medal to Dr. Edward William Archibald, Montreal lung surgeon. He had been recommended for this honor by Dr. Lawrason Brown of Saranac Lake, N. Y., centre for tuberculosis treatment. But to very few of the U. S, anti-tuberculosis enthusiasts in New Orleans last week was able Dr. Archibald more than a name...
Died, Dr. William Bradley Coley, 74. famed abdominal surgeon, originator of the theory that cancer is an inherent microorganism; of an intestinal infection; in Manhattan...