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  • According to former Surgeon General and retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Dr. Harold M. Koenig, although DDT "provides the most effective, ...
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  • physicians. The profession of being a surgeon and that of being a physician have different historical roots, and surgeons have now even sub-specialized ...
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  • brother Geoffrey Keynes (1887–1982) was a surgeon and bibliophile, and his younger sister Margaret (1890–1974), married the Nobel Prize–winning ...
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  • Germany, on May 21, 1817, the son of an army surgeon. He was educated at the gymnasium of Zittau; he wrote poetry and had an enduring love of the classical ...
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  • Men like Leonard Wood, the dashing former Army surgeon and Rough Rider, who went on to administer Cuba and the Philippines; Charles Magoon, a stolid ...
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  • also found the support of Queen Victoria's surgeon, Sir Henry Thompson, who together with colleagues founded the Cremation Society of England ...
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  • The first cause of cancer was identified by British surgeon Percivall ... was first formulated by the English surgeon Campbell De Morgan between ...
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  • hills surrounding Malakand South. The garrison surgeon, Lieutenant J.H. Hugo, treated a number of British casualties including an officer from the ...
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  • * Office of the Surgeon General (1871) In foreign affairs the greatest achievement of the Grant administration was the Treaty of Washington negotiated ...
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  • carry out their role(s) (e.g., a surgeon is given the right and even the responsibility to cut open another human's body if the surgeon ...
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  • the first millennium B.C.E. on the work of the surgeon Sushruta: The original text is believed to have 5 books and 120 chapters. The text in its ...
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  • Mohawk settlements to the west was led by a surgeon named Harmen van den Bogaert. At the time of the expedition there were only eight villages (from ...
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  • delicate, accurate surgery. In the future, a surgeon may use a remotely controlled robot to perform a procedure on a patient when the two are separated ...
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  • before using them on humans. He was an expert surgeon and the first to report the use of opium as an anesthesia, and to introduce the use of alcohol ...
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  • of that year, Colbert married Dr. Joel Pressman, a surgeon at UCLA. The marriage lasted 33 years, until Pressman's death of liver cancer in 1968. ...
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  • legs operated on by an incompetent surgeon. Salisbury, 57 and compare with the conclusion of M. R. James's "The Acts of Peter" ...
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  • left him with a broken nose (which a plastic surgeon later repaired in hopes that it would help Martin's career) and permanently damaged his ...
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  • Bill Cody. The sixth was Civil War Assistant Surgeon Mary Edwards Walker. Though she had participated in major campaigns from Bull Run to the Battle ...
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  • Hippocrates was the first documented chest surgeon and his findings are still valid. Major|1965 ==Hippocratic Corpus== Hippocratic Corpus ...
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  • worked with Nobel Prize-winning French surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel. Carrel had collaborated on earlier projects with Lindbergh while he lived in ...
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  • But Kidd seemed unconcerned, later telling his surgeon that he had "good friends in England, that will bring me off for that." ...
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  • called "Lightburn's Retreat." The surgeon for the 4th Loyal Virginia Infantry, Dr. Thomas H. Barton, uses the label "Lightburn& ...
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  • around 1833, by Dr. John Emerson, a surgeon in the U.S. Army, from Peter Blow, who had owned Scott perhaps since his birth in 1795 but at least ...
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  • Hospital, where Dr. Francesco Crucitti, a noted surgeon, had just arrived by police escort after hearing of the incident. En route to the hospital, he ...
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  • the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Surgeon General, gov/Fluoridation/pdf/SGstatement.pdf Surgeon General's statement ...
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  • In 1855, the Quaker surgeon, Jonathan Hutchinson, observed that circumcision appeared to protect against syphilis. J. Hutchinson, On the influence ...
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  • did of a heart inspired a British heart surgeon to pioneer a new way to ... stm “Da Vinci clue for heart surgeon.”] BBC News. September ...
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  • theaters. There was a prominent doctor, a surgeon, on the island. Falk invited many of the society patrons to a special assigned-seating show ...
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  • Kent Moore, a physicist, and John L. Semple, a surgeon, both researchers from the University of Toronto, told New Scientist magazine that an analysis ...
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  • #039;s father Mikhail was a retired military surgeon and a violent alcoholic, who had practiced at the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor in Moscow. The ...
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  • to Jacob Cassivelaun Fancourt, an assistant surgeon in Madras who had died in 1800. It was also this time that he made acquaintance with Thomas ...
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  • to go to England for further studies, but the Civil Surgeon of Madras ruled it out, claiming that the young Raman was too frail to withstand the English ...
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  • and was put under the medical attention of the Surgeon-General of Madras. But Ramanujan died on April 26, 1920–he was only 32. His wife, S. Janaki ...
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  • who seized Corday. Two neighbors, a military surgeon and a dentist, attempted to revive Marat. Republican officials arrived to interrogate Corday ...
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  • Bowie had been ill, and two doctors, including the fort surgeon, were unable to diagnose his illness.Hopewell, 115. On February 21, Bowie broke ...
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  • injured in a train wreck. After an operation, the surgeon discovered gangrene and the leg was amputated. Once he had recovered, Duranty returned to the ...
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  • 4, 1926. A letter from Dr. Harold E. Meeker, the surgeon who operated on and attended Rudolph Valentino during the illness preceding his death, to S ...
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  • is first issued by the Library of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army, with John Shaw Billings as librarian, and later the library issues ‘‘Index ...
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  • November 18, 1836. His father, William, was a naval surgeon who later wrote novels and short stories, some of which included illustrations by his son ...
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  • Chogyal of Sikkim in 1835. Arthur Campbell, a surgeon with the Company and Lieutenant Napier (later Lord Napier of Magdala) received the responsibility ...
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  • she got along well with doctors, especially a surgeon named Colonel Mewburn. She justified her position there by helping those who needed non-medical ...
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  • William was Ireland's leading ear and eye surgeon, and wrote books on archaeology and folklore. He was a renowned philanthropist, and his dispensary ...
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  • Chagas' disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical acute and chronic parasitic disease of the Americas caused by the flagellate ...
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  • on the Union left. He had sent his personal surgeon away to care for some wounded soldiers, and in the doctor's absence, he bled to death from ...
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  • The lead investigator was John c. Cutler, a senior surgeon at PHS, who was also involved with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and with a study at ...
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  • by Issam Sartawi, the late Palestinian heart surgeon. Melman, 3, 51; Seale, 57. His siblings' scorn, the loss of his father, and his mother ...
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  • clinical collaboration with the British cancer surgeon, Ewan Cameron, "Cancer Bibliography: Ewan Cameron, M.D. and Vitamin C Therapy," ...
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  • His father, also named William, was a naval surgeon who later became a writer of novels and short stories, some of which were illustrated by his ...
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  • Second World War. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, Dept. of the Army. * Sykes, Christopher. 1959. Orde Wingate. London, UK: Collins. ...
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  • family. His father, Paul Foucault, was an eminent surgeon and hoped his son would join him in the profession. His early education was a mix of success ...
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  • These words were popularized in English by the Scottish surgeon James Braid (to whom they are sometimes wrongly attributed) around 1841. Braid ...
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  • force of Spanish troops, the Spanish surgeon general requested to take Rizal's pulse; it was normal. Aware of this, the Spanish sergeant ...
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  • The Turkish surgeon, Dr. Haydar Cemal wrote in Türkce Istanbul, No. 45, (December 23, 1918, also published in Renaissance December 26, 1918 ...
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  • who had significant experience working as a field surgeon; Appia's friend and colleague Théodore Maunoir, from the Geneva Hygiene and Health Commission; ...
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  • It is said that in the third century the great surgeon Hua Tuo applied for an operation an effervescing powder called mafeisan as an anaesthetic which ...
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  • *Battle Circus (1951). A love story of a hard-bitten surgeon and a new nurse at a M.A.S.H. unit. It starred Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson ...
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  • Daniloff, and Nicholas Daniloff. The Oath: A Surgeon under Fire. New York, NY: Walker & Co., 2003. ISBN 9780802714046 * Bird, Chris. To Catch ...
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  • she worked as a nurse, assisting the chief surgeon with amputations and operations ... to Bordeaux, where on February 22, 1915, a surgeon amputated her leg almost ...
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  • The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes by the U.S. Army and the Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine) by the German ...
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  • Bogart's father, Belmont, was a successful surgeon. His mother, Maud Humphrey, was a very successful commercial illustrator. Indeed, she ...
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  • born Hermann Epenstein. Epenstein, whose father was an army surgeon in Berlin, became a wealthy physician and businessman and a major if not ...
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  • *1987: The American surgeon general's report on nutrition and health asserted that at least half of all deaths in the United States were ...
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  • men. The Special Guard Jäger lost 19 officers, a surgeon and 431 men out of a total of 700. The 2nd Guard Infantry Brigade lost 39 officers and 1,076 ...
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  • in China. Her father, L. Nelson Bell, was a general surgeon. Graham then pastored The Village Church of Western Springs (now Western Springs Baptist Church ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Freud, Sigmund {{Infobox_Scientist | name = Sigmund Freud | image = Sigmund Freud LIFE.jpg | image_width = 220px ...
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  • lodgings at the Hôtel de Béthisy, where the surgeon Ambroise Paré removed a bullet from his elbow and amputated a damaged finger with a pair of scissors ...
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  • carried the decontamination swimmer and the flight surgeon. At 16:44 UTC (05:44 local time) Columbia s drogue parachutes were deployed. This was ...
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  • studying urbanism. Alexis Carrel, a eugenicist surgeon, appointed Le Corbusier to the Department of Bio-Sociology of the Foundation for the Study of Human ...
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