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At the turn of the century, when John Willard Travell was a young physician building his practice and raising two daughters, frogs were still common in Manhattan. They came in handy: Dr. Travell wanted his daughters to become physicians, so he dissected the frogs in anatomy lessons for them and...
To the Palace. No ordinary woman, Dr. Janet Travell (Wellesley, '22; Cornell University Medical College, '26) is no ordinary physician. From her father, who had pioneered in galvanism-electrical treatment of muscle disorders-she picked up a keener-than-average interest in the human spine and its disks...
Dr. Travell has concentrated on what doctors call muscle spasm and patients call muscle cramps. During most of her career, the main drug used to relieve these pains-often agonizing, sometimes crippling-has been procaine (Novocain), which has to be injected. Dr. Travell learned to make skillful use of the...
By the Back Door. Because Dr. Travell 's main treatment for muscle cramp sounds superficially like Chinese acupuncture (inserting needles into many parts of the body), some physicians are inclined to sniff at the scientific value of her work. Not so her grateful patients, who besides President Kennedy (and...
The travell'd winds from sea returning stop to greet