Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week was a week of torment for a Chicago dentist and his wife. Dr. & Mrs. Herman Colan could not decide whether to have their newborn daughter's eyes taken out, or to let her die from the tumor which was blinding her and which, if not immediately stopped by surgery or X-rays, was sure to reach her brain. The infant's left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned...
...kindly people pulled his will to-&-fro, as death came closer to his infant daughter each day, Dentist Colan cried: "God gave her the eyes. Why take them from her?" But he finally sat with a jury of ten doctors and two rabbis, concurred with a decision to have the infant's left eye excised, an operation which was immediately performed...
After peering and prying into hundreds of Civilian Conservation Corps mouths, Dentist Edgar Alonzo Waterman of Portland, Ore. last week opened his own and spoke a large mouthful. Said Dentist Waterman: The best U. S. teeth come from Arkansas and Tennessee, the worst from New Jersey, New York and New England...
When a child's milk tooth decays and is pulled before a permanent tooth is ready to replace it, the jaw may shrink and become malformed. As one way of combatting this common dental accident. Dentist Kenneth A. Easlick of the University of Michigan last week announced a neat trick: plugging the cavity in the tooth with a paste of paraformaldehyde. Such a chemical desensitizes and mummifies the tooth. Therefore the tooth stays in place, may be filled and helps maintain the shape of the jaw until the permanent tooth ripens and pushes out the mummified milk tooth...
Less excitable readers found it easy to keep off the floor, catalogued The Flying Yorkshireman as consisting of: 1) a fantasy by Eric Knight about a man who discovered he could fly, amusing but stretched thin; 2) a sentimental story by Helen Hull about a dentist's wife who wins a $10,000 novel contest; 3) a realistic report on New Year's Eve in a flop house, by Albert Maltz; 4) a whimsy about a girl whose poetic sprightliness enchants a middle-aged doctor, by 24-year-old Rachel Maddux; 5) a sentimental reminiscence of childhood...