Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pull out, he raced his motor for about 15 minutes, when he became drowsy. A constable came along to scold. He smelled the driver's sour breath, arrested him for driving while inebriated. He did not arrest the two passengers. They were dead, from alcohol declared the police surgeon, from carbon monoxide swore a private physician who had noted the pinkness of the victims' bloods. Professors Haldane and Hill read newspaper accounts of the driver's jeopardy and voluntarily went to court, where they convinced the magistrate: that the car's exhaust pipe was clogged with...
...Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming of the Public Health Service was not excited by the situation. He feared no epidemic. But he advised people to have caution when playing with pet parrots...
...Author. Jim Tully, onetime transcontinental tramper (three times across), farm laborer, link heater, circus roustabout, chainmaker, prizefighter, newspaperman, tree surgeon, was born near St. Marys, Ohio, 1891, now lives in Hollywood, Calif. Other books: Emmett Lawler, Beggars of Life, Jarnegan, Life of Thomas H. Ince, Life of Charlie Chaplin, Circus Parade, Shanty Irish...
...Every suspected case of cancer in a community should be referred to a central cancer bureau such as exist in Buffalo, Boston, Philadelphia. So recommended Dr. James Ewing, Manhattan cancer specialist, last week. Those bureaus have clinical and pathological experts who review a cancer diagnosis before the surgeon operates or a radiologist burns away the excrescent tissues. Thus they can prevent many a useless operation, much needless suffering...