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...pale, haggard man mumbled the words to himself as he slumped lower in his chair in a fourth-floor apartment of the swank colonnaded Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay one day last week. India manager of the great London grain firm of Strauss & Co., he had just been ordered to close his office, stop all payments at once. Presently a messenger arrived with a cablegram. It was from his wife in England. "Try not to worry. Good luck and love." Slowly the man dragged himself across the room to the window. . . . Later that day when they had removed his battered...
...weary troopers in the thin platoons of Peace are haggard, hang-jowled "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, the down-&-out former British Labor Leader who is President of the down-&-out Disarmament Conference and small, pucker-browed Sir Norman Angell, an eminent pacifist lecturer who in 1929 attempted to clean up by inventing The Money Game...
PROFESSOR HAGGARD has written his history of the world--and viewing the world from the eyes of one predominantly interested in the position of the medicine man and the status of medicine in society it is a very interesting work. It makes no Wellsian pretensions at all-inclusiveness but strives rather to strike the high and essential points in the development of medicine through the ages to its present state. Dr. Haggard is not cramped by a sketchy knowledge of history, his facts are ever accurate and his general views concise and well-grounded. From Imhotep who started the ball...
This book includes brief weld per traits of medicine's great portraits which make of the subjects not text-book gods but living men who were great because they saw and recorded. Especially note wentily is Dr. Haggard's all too brief section on primitive societies and the status of medicine therein. The book is devoid of technicalities which might disturb the lay reader it is written in an animated and vigorous style which is not without its humorous touches. If will be of especial interest to those who anticipate entrance into the profession but it has much to offer...
Presidents. New president of the American College of Surgeons, succeeding William David Haggard of Vanderbilt University, is tall Robert Battey Greenough of Boston's Huntington Memorial and Massachusetts General Hospitals. Dr. Donald Church Balfour, 52, was elected to succeed President Greenough next autumn. He joined the Mayo clinic in 1907. From the first, the Mayo Brothers were pleased to note, patients whom he cured always stopped to say goodby. In 1910 Dr. Balfour married Dr. William James Mayo's elder child, Carrie. He is generally rated the foremost U. S. authority on surgery of the stomach and duodenum...