Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many of our best surgeons and best teachers do not have the knack of talking while working, but that may be because of the lack of proper facilities to talk directly to the class while carrying out the surgical procedure. In visiting many of the large clinics of the country, it has always been noticeable to me that the surgeon who would talk to his audience and describe the pathology, technique, etc. always had an attentive group of listeners...
...Angeles. In the current American Journal of Surgery he, a radio enthusiast, explained how he had equipped himself to talk to his classes without raising his voice and disturbing the patient. His device is a microphone mounted on a little rod, held before his mouth inside the surgeon's mask by a headband, connected to an amplifier built into a suitcase...
Harvard last week took its place beside the U. S. Public Health Service as a victor in man's fight against typhus fever. Surgeon Rolla Eugene Dyer, U.S. P. H. S., after letting rat fleas feed on his leg, last year produced a vaccine efficacious against the mild, flea-borne typhus which occurs along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (TIME, Nov. 7, et ante). Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser has been developing a vaccine and serum against the louse-carried, virulent type of typhus which constantly threatens to invade the U. S. from Eastern Europe and Mexico. Last...
...case as consultant. He found Schaaf's left side paralyzed. The condition of the fighter's eyes confirmed the diagnosis of a deep-seated lesion in the right side of the brain. To relieve pressure and explore the injury Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Columbia brain surgeon, cut a 3 1/2 in. disk from the right side of Schaaf's skull. Only a small hemorrhage was visible. But there was much swelling...
...huge array of expensive buildings, a huge horde of expensive quacks, an immeasurable ocean of buncombe . . . high-salaried experts in solving the insoluble and achieving the impossible ... a truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive tuition (or, at all events, of pleasant recreation) for downright idiots...