Word: sydenham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall, a field man reported to President Melvin that several dentists in his territory were excited over ammoniated dentifrices. Researchers at the University of Illinois and at Manhattan's Sydenham Hospital, testing the use of urea and dibasic ammonium phosphate to kill bacteria associated with tooth decay, had reported promising results...
...Ottawa, the broad lawn on Parliament Hill shook off its mantle of snow. All across the province deep drifts fell away to little dirty mounds; streets were choked with slush. The Sauble River, the Etobicoke, the Humber, the Sydenham and the Big Head boiled over their banks. As the bottom went out of roads in the Maritimes. logging virtually stopped...
...Sydenham Hospital, of which Dr. Thorne is a staff member, pointed out that it could not promote him without violating an un written law of grade A hospitals - that only A.C.S. members or specialists who are diplomates of the American Board of Surgery may hold high surgical staff jobs...
...world rife with war and hate, in a nation rife with racial prejudice and discrimination, your story [TIME, Nov. 20] of interracial medicine at Harlem's Sydenham Hospital comes as the most encouraging evidence of social progress of which I have heard for a long time. Thanks for telling us about it. Perhaps social progress is not a myth, as I had begun to fear...
...present, 23 of Sydenham's staff of some 300 doctors are Negroes. Famed Negro Surgeon Peter Marshall Murray, an attending physician on the Obstetrical and Gynecological Service, has numerous white patients. Of the twelve interns, two are Negroes. About 60% of the nurses are Negroes, and there are a few Negro nurse's aides. The hospital's Negro backers hope the proportion of Negroes does not get too high-Sydenham might become known as a Negro hospital, and the whole experiment of interracial hospitalization would be defeated...