Word: tuberculars
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...letters sent to Harvard men considerably more than half drew a monetary response. This gratifying return made possible the transportation of a large number of juvenile tubercular patients to a summer camp in Sharon where they were given an eight weeks' sunlight treatment. In connection with the Massachusetts ten year program for the prevention of the white plague, Christmas seals will be mailed again this year to members of the University...
OBERLIN'S THREE STAGES- Jacob Wassermann - Harcourt Brace ($2.50). In the first of the three stories of this book, a man softly enters the bedroom of a young girl about to be sent to an asylum. She is his ward. She is tubercular. She loves life and is bidding it farewell as she dresses herself a last time before her mirror. She is so preoccupied that she fails to notice her guardian's entrance, or a shooting riot that is in progress in the street. He sits in a shadow watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene...
Ghostly Cure. Jeanne Devors, 23, of Belgium, had been operated upon twice and given up as hopeless with her deformed, tubercular hip. Delegate Connecks had treated her, including direct prayer to God and magnetic passes by mediums, and behold! the hip regains its shape! Jeanne walks...
This picture of R. L. S. from a fellow-student is not inaccurate for his entire career As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation. Always he delighted to emphasize his eccentricities. His queer foreign face, bright-eyed and animated, peered forth under a battered straw hat. He was wont to wear velvet jackets, brigandish cloaks, black shirts, loose collars? the whole as shabby and disreputable as any tramp's. Thus garbed, he delighted in the astonished gaze of the passersby...
...Rinehart, now known to the medical world as a specialist in tubercular trouble, took his degree at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus, Vienna. He began his medical practice in Pittsburgh, where, in 1896, he mar ried a trained nurse, Mary Roberts. During the War, he was in charge of the tuberculosis work at Camp Sherman, and afterwards of all the U. S. Army tuberculosis hospitals. This is his first book, but he once helped to write a play, The Avenger, which was published...