Word: physician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Charles Williamson Richardson, 68, of Washington, D. C., ear, nose & throat specialist, friend and physician to Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge; in Boston...
...Manhattan, to cure alcoholism, drug addiction, dietary ills. He hired a medical staff, advertised for patients, earned $500 a month. This vexed New York doctors who complained to the municipal board of health. His priesthood repelled investigation as it attracted him patients, especially female patients. Although he had licensed physicians on his staff, he frequently examined patients himself, persuading women (many have complained to city health authorities) to strip naked except for stockings and shoes. To hesitant patients he sometimes declared that he was a graduate physician, although he had no New York State license. Usually he merely conveyed...
...Illinois the maximum prison penalty is one year for administering medicine without a license, one year for representing oneself falsely as a graduate physician...
...Keeley Institute advertisement: "Hundreds of ladies have taken the Keeley Treatment for Liquor. They have complete privacy ... the exact degree of privacy which they desire. All lady patients are treated in their own rooms, a physician and nurse visiting them for that purpose. Every courtesy and aid is extended to them by the physicians, attendants and nurses . . . and every effort made to make their visit as enjoyable as possible...
...course of the present debt debate (TIME, July 22), he had addressed the Chamber for a total of more than 37 hours (three or four hours daily) reading every word from sheets covered with his neat, almost microscopic handwriting. Result: the strain gave him a high "gastric fever," his physician last week imperatively tucked him into...