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Last week as the British liner Lady Nelson docked in Boston, pier visitors were amazed to see a ship's officer standing on deck, a large rubber muzzle covering his nose, a large rubber doughnut surrounding his mouth, a limp rubber bag hanging on his chest. It was Dr. Richmond Goulden, ship's surgeon, who was modeling an oxygen mask for seasickness, invented by Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby of the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Boothby tried the new invention on four seasick passengers during the Lady Nelson's 30-day trip to British Guiana and back. It gave...
Twelve civic minded students of the College have been doing active work for the Speaker's Bureau of the Greater Boston Community Chest Fund, Norman W. Mattis, instructor in Public Speaking, announced last night...
...afterwards as an advertising copy writer in Philadelphia and as a country doctor's wife in upper Michigan, her notable successes were: 1) being sued by a villager whom she described too candidly; 2) winning a single silver spoon in an advertising contest (first prize: a whole chest of silver); 3) winning $14 for a contest article entitled How I Met the Problems of Adolescence in my Daughter, which she wrote shortly before her first child was born. Her first published novel, Fireweed, won the University of Michigan's Avery Hopwood Prize...
...Drinker brothers idea was to use a suction pump to expand a paralytic's chest. Emerson made several improvements; he introduced bellows instead of a suction pump, a much quieter motor, and several conveniences for both nurse and patient...
When 13-year-old Clara Howard of Washington. D. C. emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire, the flames leaped up, licked her neck and sides. After weeks of painful healing she was left a hopeless cripple, with her chin grown to her chest, her arms to her sides. Prof. Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University saw the little Negro girl at Emergency Hospital last year, determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner...