Word: veterinarian
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...Bill's rescue came Brooklyn's Police, Park and Sanitation Departments, hoisted him out of the moat, placed him before Veterinarian Harry Nimphius. Diagnosis: partial fracture of the right hipbone...
...city, have neither the time, training nor inclination for hunting. Because they consider that the dog has been deprived of his natural occupation, anti-city dog leaguers regularly raise a cry of cruelty. But in a new book on bringing up dogs,* Dr. James R. Kinney, chief veterinarian of Manhattan's famed Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital for Animals, burst their argument's bubble. He pointed out that dogs have become the most domesticated and civilized of animals; that unless man teaches them the tricks they seldom revert to their ancient habits in the country or out; that since...
...Thingumabob . . . gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead" (TIME, Aug. 22). Let TIME or veterinary scientists explain why broken ankles and legs cannot be set, why valuable horseflesh is sacrificed. There must be a reason, other than such horses' usefulness as moneymakers (or losers) is ended...
During the Crimean War, thousands of British soldiers quartered in the Mediterranean area were disabled by Malta fever. In 1886 Major General Sir David Bruce of the British Army Medical Corps discovered the guilty germ. In 1897 Bernhard L. F. Bang, a Danish veterinarian, discovered the germ which caused contagious abortion in cattle. In 1918 Bacteriologist Alice Catherine Evans of the U. S. Public Health Service showed that these two germs were closely related, and it was later proved that the disease originates in cattle, goats and swine, and is transmitted to man. Malta fever and Brucellosis are commonly known...
...Ariel Toy, the pacemaker. Suddenly Ariel Toy closed the switch by cutting towards the rail. Thingumabob reared, then crumpled. His right front ankle had snapped above the fetlock. He limped to the outside fence, fell to his knees, gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead...