Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt last week appointed, sight unseen, a Surgeon General of the Navy to succeed Charles Edward Riggs, 63. Winner over several potently backed aspirants was Captain Perceval Sherer Rossiter, 58, husky, scowling commanding officer of the Naval Hospital at Washington. He and President Roosevelt had never met before the decision to make him the Navy's highest medical officer. Sufficient was the recommendation of Claude Augustus Swanson, new Secretary of the Navy, Captain Rossiter's longtime friend...
...roster of Surgeon Generals thus stood complete: Hugh Smith Gumming...
Night before Surgeon General Rossiter took office he summoned his associates at the Naval Hospital for a good-by and gentle carouse. He neither smokes nor drinks. ("The liquor is no good now anyhow.") Their chief request was that he send them "a commanding officer who plays good golf." He shoots 90 to 100 at the Army & Navy Country Club...
...Surgeon General Rossiter is third of his family to hold his new rank. Surgeon General Jonathan M. Foltz who served under President Grant was his mother's cousin. His ancestor William Brown was George Washington's Surgeon General at Valley Forge. In January Surgeon General Rossiter completed 30 years in the Navy...
...young woman with a slot in her neck -running from the right tonsil inside almost to the notch of her collarbone outside-came to Surgeon Elliott Carr Cutler. This was while he was in Cleveland last year, before he returned to Boston to succeed his old master, Surgeon Harvey Gushing at Harvard. Dr. Cutler cured the girl's cervical fistula by flushing it with a caustic fluid. He thus saved himself a laborious operation, the girl an ugly scar. The clean result, reproduced in other fistulous cases with similar sclerosing fluids, warranted reporting in the current American Journal...