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Word: physicians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Similar in effect to injections are the pollen pills first introduced by Detroit's Sherman Laboratories last spring. Ten days before he starts sneezing, the patient swallows a few pills, gradually increases the amount until his physician calls a halt. Medical opinion is now divided on the efficacy of the pills, some physicians holding that the pills cause serious upsets in the digestive system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hay Fever | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...sahibs of the British colony in Singapore had thought it bad enough some years ago when the Sultan married (and subsequently divorced) a Scotswoman who had been the wife of a Singapore physician. A cabaret-girl-Sultana the sahibs considered quite impossible. Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss Hill was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHORE: Mothers & Daughters | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...deaths which occurred in the U. S. last year from "elixir of sulfanilamide" were not due to the action of the drug, but to the diethylene glycol which an ignorant chemist used to dissolve it. Sulfanilamide should be taken only upon a physician's prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sulfanilamide Appraised | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...ideas. Asked for no formal endorsement, the delegates hailed Miss Roche's assurance that the next Congress would consider her program. To Manhattan went Dr. Hugh Cabot and friends, where they proceeded to hold their first annual meeting, under the name of the Committee of Physicians. They upheld the Roche program. To their Chicago fortress went A. M. A.'s triumvirate, repeating: "There can be but one master in the house of physician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plan & Poise | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...away in 1933 to the Sisters of St. Joseph, "Pop" Hertzler, now 68, is a lanky, Ichabod Cranelike surgeon whom a Civil War veteran described as "the homeliest man I seen since I saw Old Abe." During his farm boyhood his favorite reading was Dr. Foote's Family Physician, and Hertzler recalls with satisfaction the time when he walloped a mean teacher with a slate-it pointed to "the ability to act quickly, accurately and energetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kitchen Surgeon | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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