Word: alvarez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes found a patient reading up on his disease. "Look out!" warned the doctor, "or you'll die of a misprint some day." Last week, to replace old-fashioned medical "encyclopedias," a group of eminent physicians, headed by Stomach Specialist Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic, published a series of little books (Help Your Doctor to Help You; Harper; 95?) on five diseases (twelve more are coming). The books, which were displayed for the first time at the College of Physicians meeting in Boston, are for popular consumption, are supposed to contain no medical...
...convincing his patients that he was old enough to operate. Last week, still bursting with youthful energy, he celebrated his 60th birthday. At a party he was given a surprise ceremonial Birthday Volume of scientific articles by 59 of his colleagues, including such noted men as Drs. Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic, Andrew Conway Ivy of Northwestern, George Washington Crile of Cleveland. While his guests lit their cigars and settled back in their chairs, the doors to the dining hall opened wide and in trooped 50 of Dr. Lahey's friends, bearing a mammoth birthday cake, lavishly...
...appendix is still marked "Do not disturb"; but many another is no longer at home. Last week a famed specialist suggested (by implication) that more than one appendectomy he knows about was no better than a kidnapping. Several years ago, Mayo Clinic's famed Digestion Expert Walter Clement Alvarez started a notebook in which he collected experiences of patients whose appendixes had been reft from them. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association he told what he had learned from 385 patients. Of these, 130 had suffered at least one sharp bellyache "suggesting appendicitis," and after...
...most remarkable story of all," continued Dr. Alvarez, "was told by a woman who gave as the only reason for her appendectomy the fact that on arriving in Los Angeles one day she found a big convention in full swing and all the hotels full. The only place in which she could find a bed was a hospital, so she took it and had her appendix out. She always wanted to have it done . . . sometime ... so why not then...
...would seem," concluded Dr. Alvarez, "that true chronic appendicitis, instead of being regarded as the commonest intra-abdominal disease, should be thought of as one of the rarest...