Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surgeon General Hugh Simon Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service; Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, secretary of the Medical Re-search Council of Great Britain; Professor Archibald Vivian Hill of the Royal Society: Dr. James Ramsay Hunt, Columbia's professor of neurology; President William Gerry Morgan of the American Medical Association: Dr. Alfred Stengel, Pennsylvania's professor of medicine: Dr. Alonzo Englebert Taylor, Leland Stanford's director of food research; Johns Hopkins' William Henry Welch, dean of U. S. medicine...
...nation under arms, elects to be a stretcher-bearer and as such is sent to the Western Front. But he is physically unable to do the work, is transferred to the dressing station behind the lines. Here he makes himself indispensable, soon is more useful than the surgeon. A writer in peacetime, he knows nothing of medicine, learns gradually how little can be done to help the wounded, even before the medical supplies begin to give out. before they have to use paper bandages, the same dressings over and over...
...Michigan trapper named St. Martin was shot in the stomach in 1822. The accident proved good fortune to Medicine. For Dr. William Beaumont, young Army surgeon, succeeded in healing the wound, except for a clean hole three inches in diameter. Through that hole Dr. Beaumont was able to study the processes of human digestion for the many years which St. Martin continued to live...
...Spanish-descended Dr. Rudolph Matas. 70, went to Europe after his Tulane resignation. Three months ago he returned to New Orleans to be visiting lecturer at Tulane and consulting surgeon to Charity Hospital, to pursue researches, to make some money practicing surgery. Last week he was in seclusion, writing a history of medicine in Louisiana. In such a history only diffidence will keep his career from standing largest...
...infantile paralysis season (May to November) neared its end Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service last week was obliged to send out a reluctant warning. The disease, instead of subsiding, was spreading throughout the country. Last week he estimated 4,000 cases, too near the 1927 epidemic's 6,000 for serenity. Most vociferous in their fears of epidemic were Kansas and Minnesota. Minnesota's state board of health pleaded for extra money. Several Kansas communities closed their schools...