Word: physician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Dr. Elinor Whitney Fosdick, 27, physician-daughter of Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Manhattan's Riverside Church; and Dr. Sherman Roger Downs, 28, medical researcher; on Mouse Island...
...Bronx doctor who said he had examined Mrs. Geraci seven years ago declared she had been afflicted with "flip walk," result of flaccid paralysis. At week's end no physician had publicly attested her foot healed...
Today slim, bald, horn-tufted with white wool like an Uncle Tom in business clothes, he has one son who is an African Methodist Episcopal bishop in Capetown, South Africa, another who is a physician, a daughter who is a St. Louis high-school teacher. His third son is a cashier in his father's bank, and another of his five daughters is a teller...
When young Dr. Freud, fresh from five years' research on the nervous system, returned to his native Vienna and with high hopes hung out his shingle, the gay city was thronged with neurotics, "who hurried, with their troubles unsolved, from one physician to another." Some were afraid of animals; others constantly washed their hands, stammered, endured blinding headaches, lingering illnesses, or even developed strange paralyses of the arms and legs. All balanced precariously on the slender line between sanity and insanity. That the cause of their maladies was psychological, the 30-year-old psychiatrist was certain. But how these...
Last week Dr. Anders himself was on the carpet, and the reason was a pulverized poison called morphine. By regulation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a physician may not supply morphine to a known addict. But for two years Dr. Anders has been feeding heroic doses of morphine to addict Fred Barrick, a busy Philadelphia insurance agent. Federal agents warned Dr. Anders three times to cut off Fred Barrick's supply. Three times he denounced them for "intruding upon the relation between a doctor and his patients." Finally the agents caught Dr. Anders off base...