Word: physician
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sganarelle's daughter is sick of love for her Clitandre. Her dull old father is too stupid to see the only cure. Wiser is the daughter's companion, the sage Lisette--wise beyond her years. She tells slow-witted Sganarelle that it will be a death-bed unless physicians are summoned. There is safety in numbers thinks the old man, and four doctors answer his call--pure figures of burlesque, and a little bitter burlesque, for Moliere had small faith in the pretentious practitioners of his time. They are portentously solemn, self-important, foolish and comic. It is the fifth...
Students confined to their rooms by illness should send word to Thayer 21 before 9.30 A. M. if possible. Later cases may be reported at 47 Brattle street. If no physician is already in attendance they will be visited as soon thereafter as possible. The nature of the illness and the degree of urgency should be stated...
...Cabot is a Boston doctor who for the past seven years has been Visiting Physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Consulting Physician at the Boston Eye and Ear Infirmary. During the Spanish war he was appointed by the Government a member of a committee to investigate the sanitary condition of the United States transport service...
...guardian, but for Eraste, a young man whom she has met by chance. Anxious to be rid of her guardian's control. Agathe pretends to be mad. She appears first as a musician, then as an old woman, and finally as a soldier. Crispin, valet to Eraste, impersonating a physician, takes charge of Agathe who, in her impersonation of a soldier, has become violent toward Albert. Crispin claims that, by giving a potion, he can transfer Agathe's madness to another, if someone can be found to volunteer. Eraste consents, feigns insanity, and attacks Albert still more violently than Agathe...
...registered in a Cambridge department incurs thereby an infirmary charge of four dollars, which will be included in the first term-bill, payable in February. In return for this fee every student in a Cambridge department will, in case of sickness and upon the order of a physician, be admitted to the Stillman Infirmary, where he will be entitled without further charge to a bed in a ward, board, and ordinary nursing for a period not exceeding two weeks in any one academic year. Students in the Boston departments of the University and unmarried officers of instruction or administration...