Word: physician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ministry carried on without him, however, informing Frenchmen that, the minute they caught sight of a flu suspect, they ought to press a handy piece of gauze over mouth and nostrils. One eminent physician declared: "Consumption of alcohol is at least as efficient a preventive as any drug." Beneath public health notices declaring: "He who avoids flu performs a public service," France's barflies drank deep and gloriously in the full consciousness of civic virtue...
Crusty old Louis Ernst Schmidt likes his reputation as a terrible-tempered man. But this week, portly, pink-cheeked Dr. Schmidt was basking in a Sabbathlike calm. It was the physician's 80th birthday, and a delegation of colleagues turned up, first to give him a reception at Northwestern's medical school library and then a banquet at Chicago's Drake Hotel...
...patients, holds consultations until late in the day. Ten years ago he laid down his scalpel, but he still watches operations, and he likes to show that his hand is still tremor-free. He still smokes ten cigars a day, and snaps off his hearing aid when ever a physician friend needles him to cut down...
...Louis, trust officers wondered what to do with $250,000 left by Physician Francis L. Stuever "to promote the cause of prohibition in the United States, Germany and Austria." Said one worried banker: "An organization in Washington, the International Reform Federation, claims it is ready to start working for prohibition in Germany and Austria. We don't know if they can even...
This is the story of another Alexander Hamilton, a mildly libertine Scottish physician who left Maryland in 1744 on horseback, with his Negro slave Dromo, on a trip around the colonies. He hoped thereby to regain his failing health. In four months he covered 1,624 miles by horse and by sloop, got northeast as far as what is now York, Maine and northwest as far as Schenectady. During the journey he kept an Itinerarium, which, except for a collectors' limited edition in 1907, is now published for the first time...