Word: physician
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...William Sydney Thayer '85 has been appointed by the Corporation visiting Lecturer in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. he has also been appointed by the Trustees of the Peter Bent Brigham Memorial Hospital, Visiting Physician pro tem during the period of his stay in Boston...
...Thayer was born at Milton in 1864. He graduated in the class of '85 and took his M.D. in, 89. He was resident physician at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore from 1898, and in 1905 was made Professor of Clinical Medicine at this University. Dr. Thayer's special study in recent years has been the diseases of the heart and blood-vessels. He is the President of the Tuberculosis Commission of Maryland and Vice-President of the Medical Society of Therapeutical Medicine...
...Nichols, the squad physician, has been retired in favor of Dr. Somers Fraser '07, a graduate of the Medical School. Dr. Nichols will continue to come around occasionally, but the brunt of the work will fall upon Dr. Fraser. The latter played centre on the 1907 football team...
There is no guessing how many of us cherish the lives of those who mean much to us--lives that have been preserved, directly or indirectly, through the researches of this rather reserved, conservative-minded physician. He was a pioneer among pioneers. When he returned from Europe in the early seventies, comparatively little was known about the scientific study of pathology by microscope. The powers of the young man were very speedily recognized by Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, and a way was cleared for him. In fact, the beginnings of the pathological building at the Massachusetts General Hospital were made...
...curious to note that the man who named appendicitis--a disease which has led to so much criticism for alleged reckless operating--was a physician very conservative himself in the matter of operations. This conservatism was a dominant mental trait, of a piece with his rather reserved personality, under which, however, for those who know him well, flowed a vein of genial humor. It was often remarked that he and the late Dr. Maurice Richardson were the close friends they were "by the law of opposites...