Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What the Army failed to explain was why only one doctor in each city was interested in such a profitable sideline. In Washington the Army's Surgeon General, Major General Raymond W. Bliss, was quick to announce that he would investigate the whole affair. Just to make sure, Georgia's Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, decided to turn a congressional X ray on the situation himself...
...doctrine of those desk-bound intellectuals who got all mixed up, those gentlemen who would probably describe Al Capone as the product of an unhappy childhood, those gentlemen who saw a boil on China's neck and called in the executioner with his ax, thinking he was a surgeon...
This week Thakin Nu's government announced that it had arrested and imprisoned famed Dr. Gordon S. (Burma Surgeon) Seagrave on suspicion of aiding Burmese rebels. For a quarter-century the medical missionary, born of American parents in Burma, educated at Johns Hopkins, had fought a one-man war against illness in the Burma jungles. During the Japanese war, he organized a front-line medical service for U.S., British and Chinese troops, trekked out of Burma with U.S. General Joseph Stilwell, marched back again when the Japanese were driven out. During the country's fierce postwar civil strife...
Sweet Vapors. The half-legendary Indian surgeon Susruta,* says Dr. Kirby, was able to operate successfully for cataract by piercing the eyeball and pushing the clouded lens down out of the light rays' path. This partly restored the patient's sight, though not his power to focus. Susruta also anticipated modern aseptic surgery: his operating room was fumigated with sweet vapors; the surgeon kept his hair and beard short, his nails and hands clean. His patients even seem to have inhaled some kind of anesthetic...
...Surgeon's Knife. "Nothing must stand in your way," warns Miss Carlyle. "If you are convinced the family is a detriment to your success, please don't hesitate to keep them in the background. After marriage, you can see your parents during the day- alone." As for friends, "appraise calmly whether your friend or friends aid or hinder you in your objective . . . Examine the true state of affairs with a surgeon's knife. Your relationship [may be] a cancerous growth which should be removed...