Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unembarrassed by that professional pride which obliges medicos to look down upon "horse-doctors," morticians and the like, were less scornful. The annual report of Dr. John R. Mohler of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry was also published last week and it showed that the well-paid veterinarian profession is not only uncrowded but actually undermanned. The 14 veterinary colleges in the U. S. and Canada turned out only 132 graduates last year. The Bureau of Animal Industry needs about that number of new men annually. Veterinaries are no longer "horse" but "cow-doctors." Aside from the growing...
Near Strongs, Mich., one Dr. John F. Deadman, veterinarian, talked softly and whistled to a full-grown timber wolf caught in a trap, calmed it, released it, in three days had it so tame he could stroke it, feed it, lift its lips back, baring the fangs...
...duties were easily and responsibly transferred to Dr. Reid Blair, a Philadelphia-born veterinarian with a McGill University training and a splendid War record as chief "vet" with the Fourth Army Corps, who has been Dr. Hornaday's second-in-command these four years. But the Hornaday personality and reputation are not to be duplicated in every generation...
...tried grafting on young goats that had previously been deprived of their own. The male characteristics that they had lost when their own glands were removed returned. ... In 1918 I made my first experiments on senile animals. I took a ram, ten or twelve years of age, that the veterinarian told me might die at any time. He was so weak that his legs trembled when he stood, and he was unable to retain his urine. I grafted upon his glands those of a buck six months of age. In about two months there came a change in his attitude...