Word: madmen
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...psychogalvanometer is more comfortable than the polygraph, whose subject has a sphygmomanometer (blood pressure meter) strapped with oppressive tightness on his arm. Neither machine will work on madmen...
Karl Murdock Bowman, assistant professor of psychiatry in the Harvard Medical School was recently chosen "manager of New York's madmen" at Bellevue and Kings County Hospital. Bowman was appointed instructor in Psychiatry at the Medical School in 1921 and promoted to the rank of assistant professor...
...psychiatrists brought forth no suitable candidate. A second search among New York State psychiatrists likewise failed. After a third search throughout the nation, authorities found a man who graded 85% in their tests. Last week Dr. Karl Murdock Bowman of Boston was appointed manager of New York's madmen.* Born in Kansas 47 years ago, educated in California, Dr. Bowman is a leader in the effort to cure insanity by means of hormones. In the sort of institutional politics which confront him in Manhattan he has had exceptional practice. In Boston where ambitious doctors butt one another unmercifully...
...Masters is that in all parts of the world individuals about whom little is known are absorbed in intrigues whose exact character cannot be determined, against persons equally enigmatic. Readers who remain to the end are likely to experience the familiar side-show emotion of feeling that the freaks, madmen and monsters presented have scarcely measured up to the claims made for them...
...Madmen Virtuous. "The relative scarcity of wholehearted rascals and hearty sinners" among the insane impressed Dr. John Clare Whitehorn of Waverley, Mass...