Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombing raid than he rushed to his typewriter to start his daily dispatch thus: "I witnessed today one of the most inhumane acts of warfare it has been my misfortune to see in 20 odd years of experience of wars. So wrote all the rest. A Dr. Loeb, Wartime surgeon in the German army, hustled newshawks to where he had laid out the body of a woman who had had both legs and a breast torn off by bomb splinters. ''This." said he, "is the best proof of the benefits of civilization I ever...
...same tourists, having found their cars and driven half a mile up a spur of Pine Mountain, had the privilege of catching a glimpse through the trees of a little colonial house 100 yards down the slope. The fact that the little house is ordinarily the home of Chief Surgeon Michael ("Mike") Hoke of Warm Springs Foundation did not stir the tourists in the least. They were there because Dr. Hoke had moved out temporarily and turned his home over to its owner, Franklin Roosevelt, to use as the Little White House...
...medical society had an easy answer: the law forbade. Of three Buffalo clergymen of three different faiths, two expressed themselves in favor of euthanasia. In Washington, a U. S. Public Health surgeon declared that mercy killing was outlawed in this clause of the oath of Hippocrates: "If any shall ask of me a drug to produce death I will not give it nor will I suggest such counsel." In Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Logan Clendening (The Human Body), who likes to pooh-pooh the fears of hypochondriacs, said the question was outside the medical profession's province. In Chicago...
...Surgeons in plays and cinemas who whisper "Brain tumor!" behind the doomed victim's back give laymen the impression that these disorders are rare. But Dr. Harvey Williams Gushing, famed Yale brain surgeon, declares that no part of the body, with the possible exception of the uterus, is as troubled by such malignant growths as the brain. Dr. Gushing has made the acquaintance of more than one thousand brain tumors and one of the commonest, most rapidly growing and most immediately fatal types-the spongioblastoma-comprises one-third of his cases. Surgical removal is sometimes effective but there...
...team were Arthur Cabot, later a leading surgeon and member of the Harvard Corporation; Robert Grant, later the beloved Judge Grant; Henry Grant, his brother; Charlie Prince, the banker; Henry Morse; William O. Sanger, Assistant Secretary of War under Teddy Roosevelt; George Wigglesworth, later member of the board of Overseers and President of the Alumni Association; W. R. Tyler, later Head Master of Adams Academy; and many others who proved to be quite as good citizens as those who were decrying football...