Word: physician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building. She was near death from leukemia, the cancer-like disease of the blood-making system for which no cure is known. Manhattan Hematologist Harry Wallerstein took the child to Ossining because he knew that prisoners there were willing to volunteer as guinea pigs for medical experiments.* Chief Prison Physician Charles C. Sweet had no trouble finding a man willing to take a chance, although he offered no rewards...
This doesn't mean that you can get away without any harmful effects drinking one quart a day. A Washington physician says that, on a quart a day, the average person would be a drunken sot; but at least one quart a day won't kill you, science says...
What Lawrence advises is consultation with a qualified physician, then faithful following of the course he prescribes. Effective treatment usually takes a long time, includes a combination of processes: the removal of excessive oil from the skin by the gentle application of soap and hot water, proper extraction of blackheads, plenty of sunlight, proper diet with a firm limit on starches, sweets and fats, adequate exercise and rest...
...qualms about the future. Congress was acting up again (see The Congress) and he still had four tough years ahead in the White House. But at 65, the President seemed to be in better shape than when he took office four years ago. "The President," proclaimed the White House physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, "is as close to being an iron man as anyone I know...
...Wold, said the Roosevelts, had never met F.D.R., nor had he consulted Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, the White House physician, who wrote Anna: "The article in Look magazine is so untruthful that comment is difficult . . . Dr. Wold has no basis for any of his statements...