Word: urologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, 75, topflight urologist and pioneer in sex education, one of the first U.S. specialists sent to Europe during World War I to fight venereal disease in the A.E.F.; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
...Organized medicine, Schmidt retorted, was fighting his plan for low-cost medical care. He was given a clean bill of professional health by half a dozen other medical societies, by Northwestern which kept him on the faculty, and by St. Luke's Hospital, where he was senior attending urologist. Today, he is generally credited with having fathered the laws for premarital and prenatal tests for syphilis...
...surgeon last week offered hope to the thousands of victims sterilized by the Nazis (by the tying or cutting of the excretory ducts of the testes). Dr. Vincent J. O'Conor, Northwestern University Medical School urologist, reported in The Journal of the American Medical Association that he has operated on 14 sterilized men; nine became fertile. He queried other urologists; 135 reported that they had performed 420 operations to restore fertility, succeeded in 35 to 40% of the cases. The operation, anastomosis (reconnection) of the vas deferens, is not difficult, he added: any surgeon...
...Maternal Health Association's new "Fertility Clinic"-a project of Cleveland's famed Brush Foundation which brings together previously scattered services-an internist, endocrinologist, urologist, gynecologist, nutritionist and psychiatrist have joined in a many-sided attack on the problem. To the young married couples who come to the clinic, they give thorough physical and mental examinations, prescribe special diets and hygiene rules. Sometimes they use surgery and drugs. Hormones may help, but endocrinologists have found no support for the idea that the "male hormone" (testosterone) increases fertility...
...Urologist Young was born in San Antonio, son of a Confederate general so unreconstructed that he refused to let his son go to West Point and wear a ''Yankee uniform." After a brief go at journalism, the would-be soldier studied medicine at the University of Virginia, then went back home to practice...