Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five expert U. S. physicians and surgeons journeyed last week from their homes to attend the impending convention of the Pan-American Medical Association at Panama City. Simultaneously five others, assembled at Miami, did something unusual, eminently practical. They loaded surgical equipment into two Pan American Airways' planes, started a 6,808-mi. tour of Caribbean countries, as the first "Flying Clinic." Their work will be to demonstrate latest U. S. surgical and medical practices to Latin American doctors who are unable to attend the Panama convention...
Beside himself with vexation was Dr. Adolph Fuchs, Director of the State Hospital for the Insane at Kaufbeuren, near Munich, Germany, last week. One of his patients suffers from Pica. Pica is the depraved appetite which the mentally unbalanced, the hysteric and the pregnant often develop. Like magpies (Pica is Latin for magpie), they eat all things they encounter. Dr. Fuchs' patient, a man, has swallowed needles, nails, knife blades, spoons, a screwdriver handle, a beer seidel handle, coins, matches, all with no apparent harm. Once he drank sulphuric acid, another time lysol. He is allowed no clothes with...
...effete city doctors, divers doings of doughty country practitioners last week gave a twinge of shame, a tweak of envy...
...outstanding leaders the London Conference had last week: one positive, the other negative...
...January last week and Messrs. Hoover and Stimson were understood, respectively in Washington and London, to be sanguine that the conference may be crowned with success in May or June...