Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he was Governor of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt suddenly found himself in need of a State Commissioner of Health. After surveying the field he called to Albany an aggressive, tweed) Marylander named Thomas Parran Jr. Dr. Parran at the time was an assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt went to Washington as President. There this year he again found himself in need of a health commissioner, this time for the entire nation, when Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming, 66, resigned. Last week President Roosevelt called Dr. Parran back to Washington...
Died. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 72, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge; Charles Augustus Lindbergh, King Prajadhipok of Siam, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Booth Tarkington; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. In 1925 grateful friends and patients opened in his honor the $4,000,000 Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, best equipped and most renowned institution of its kind...
Soon as he could he entered a London medical school, studying there for eight years, until in 1889 he was given a diploma as a physician, surgeon and midwife. While in medical school he initiated and edited the Mermaid Series of Elizabethan dramatists and a series of books called Contemporary Science. Later he wrote poetry and literary essays. His world reputation today, however, rests almost entirely upon his calm encyclopedic surveys of the love-life of men & women, of its aberrations, and of its relation to society...
...Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled the man out of the cab, tied a rope around his waist, lowered him head first to an ambulance which rushed him to a hospital for possible...
...Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Hospital Surgeon Charles M. Watson and his surgeon-son, James Rose Watson, swiftly ripped the left side of the butcher boy's chest open. Inside they could see blood pouring from the punctured heart into the pleural cavity wherein the left lung lay deflated...