Word: physician
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dwight was graduated from the Medical School in 1867. For two years he studied abroad with eminent specialists, and on his return established himself, as a practicing physician. During 1872 and 1873 he was instructor in comparative anatomy in Harvard, and from 1872 and 1876 he was lecturer and professor of anatomy at Bowdoin College. The period from 1874 to 1883 found him instructor in histology at Harvard, and upon the death of Oliver Wendell Holmes he succeeded him as Parkman professor of anatomy at the Medical School...
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 died at his home, 29 Buckingham street, Cambridge, last night at 11.25 o'clock. At his bedside were his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Barney, his son-in-law, Dr. J. D. Barney '00, and Dr. J. L. Hildreth '93, the physician. The end came peacefully, as Colonel Higginson had been unconscious since 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon...
...Bowditch was a true son of Harvard and an exponent of the best traditions of New England. Grandson of the great navigator and mathematician, Nathaniel Bowditch, son of the eminent merchant and trusted administrator, Ingersoll Bowditch, nephew of the noble physician, Henry I. Bowditch, and near relative of the distinguished Pickerings of Salem, he was a Boston boy; a Harvard Bachelor of Arts of '61; a soldier throughout the war, wounded only to re-enlist; and thereafter continuously a worker in the service of his University, as student and honored teacher of physiology, until serious illness forced him from...
...plays of modern English life with which he has since become so closely identified. This play, "Saints and Sinners," brought up the propriety of dealing with religious matters on the stage and provoked a great deal of criticism. Other famous plays of Mr. Jones's are "The Liars," "The Physician," and "Mrs. Dane's Defence...
Hospitals are a force that is tending to drive the physicians out of business. Many hospitals were originally founded as charitable institutions, but now anyone, rich or poor, may have the free use of a hospital. In this way patients who are able to pay a physician's fee, get free treatment and decrease the doctor's practice. Late in June, 1909, a circular was sent to the hospitals of Boston stating that, although the various hospitals had thousands of cases on June 17, not a doctor in the North or West End had a single case...