Word: physician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientific committee (which included Benjamin Franklin and that most gruesome of inventors, Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin) investigated Mesmer and declared that his theories were unscientific. But the experiments went on. A later Viennese physician, Sigmund Freud, experimented for a while with electricity and hypnotism, and then abandoned hypnotism for his own techniques of psychoanalysis. He reasoned that a patient under hypnosis is apt to say what the physician wants him to say instead of revealing his "unconscious" mind. Besides, Freud decided, hypnotism's effects are too ephemeral and not everybody can be hypnotized...
...White House Physician Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham...
Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the murder-intercepted letters from Caesar's better-known enemies, the report (to Cleopatra) of a secret operative of the Egyptian government, a discussion with Caesar's physician, confidential messages from his wife's maid, and, above all, Caesar's private papers. Suppose, further, that these documents were arranged like the evidence in a murder trial to show who was guilty and why. How would the result compare with the accounts given by Shakespeare and Suetonius...
Some scientists' interest in cancer is more than scientific. Quiet, balding Pathologist Albert M. Harris was one of those. Day after day he worked in the laboratory of the Sioux Valley Hospital at Sioux Falls, S.Dak. His father, also a physician, had had cancer. Young Dr. Harris was looking for a quick and sure test for the disease...
Like many another physician, small, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Gollan has an incurable interest in a disease that he himself has suffered from. At the age of three in Czechoslovakia, where he was born 38 years ago, Dr. Gollan had an attack of infantile paralysis. He survived uncrippled. Until he was 17, he planned to be a concert pianist, but a doctor-uncle attracted him to medicine. He escaped from Czechoslovakia just ahead of the Nazis in 1938: his parents died in Auschwitz gas chambers...