Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chipper as they looked. For one thing, their personal health was not good. Just back from a Swiss resort where he had been treated for a digestive ailment, Cripps took austere vegetarian meals at a small table in the ship's dining room. As a fellow sufferer under doctor's orders, Bevin dieted in his cabin-nothing but boiled fish, poultry, milk puddings, custards. Between meals they wrestled together with the bigger problem of Britain's economic health...
...wrote in longhand. Tito nodded. "You ought to try a dictating machine," I suggested. "You fasten a microphone to your shirt. You can then pace the room, and when you think of those wonderful sentences you simply say them aloud." Tito changed the subject. But later his doctor grabbed me when we were alone. "What is it called, this new machine you fasten to your shirt?" he asked. "The Marshal wants...
This week a medical magazine of a different kind was on its way to national circulation. The National Cancer Institute had granted $19,600 to help the Texas Cancer Bulletin, just renamed Cancer Bulletin, to reach out to every doctor in the land. When he picks up this gaudy piece of jazzy journalism, the most exhausted country doctor can hardly fall asleep. In fact, he may be so upset that he will need a sedative...
...Every page was laid out in punchy, advertising style. Each issue bloomed with color printing. Weird symbols of internal organs caught the eye. Among the standing features: "Tumor Topics" and "Cancer Quiz." The Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design for castration (a palliative for cancer...
...King suggests that instead of frightening the patient and browbeating her into passing up favorite foods, the doctor should let her eat what she wants, soothe her fears and give her "a mature, optimistic orientation." His clincher: uninhibited, free-fed women have an easier time in labor...