So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

The doctor agreed, but explained that it would be necessary first to check Fred's blood to ascertain whether or not it was of the same type as Papa's.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.

in an instant the doctor was stalking across the room with an antique ledger in his hands, thoroughly eared and big as a table top.

Alex's instruction was rapid, for the doctor had to go off to the Rue Ecole De Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all.

It was the doctor, dressed and ready for the expedition to the market, and Alex was obliged to prepare himself in haste.

The doctor was wearing a long New England greatcoat, hardly necessary in the June weather but a garment which proved well adapted to the sequestration of hens.

Alex entered first and was followed by the doctor who, for all his care, manifested a perceptible bulge on his left side where the hen was cradled.

The doctor, he noticed, was attempting a transverse movement towards the stairs, but before the movement could be completed a distinct and audible cluck ruffled the air in the hollow of the stair-well.

When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.

Time elapsed but the doctor was obviously unconscious of its passage until an unwelcome knock on the door interrupted the processes of nature.

It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

The doctor shot down to the lavatory and turned the doorknob, but to no effect: the lavatory was occupied.

They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;

As a natural outgrowth of this approach it was often suggested that the doctor should complete the preparation for painless intercourse by dilating the vagina.

As a result, she consulted medical authorities and learned that the devices her quack `` doctor '' was using were phony.

Waldemar Haffkine, a doctor who worked in Bombay, India, was the first to invent and test a plague vaccine against bubonic plague in 1897.

A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was “ not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you .” The good people died first.

The story is presented by Le Fanu as part of the casebook of Dr Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature.

In this case a doctor may recommend frequent blood tests during the first few months of use, followed by three to four tests per year for established patients.

It is from this history that it is said that the first academic title of doctor applied to scholars of law.

In countries where holders of the first law degree traditionally use the title of doctor ( for example, Peru, Brazil, Macau, Portugal, Argentina, and Italy ), J. D.

It may have been in The Englishwoman ’ s Journal, first issued in 1858, that Elizabeth first read of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who had become the first female doctor in the United States in 1849.

At first Newson was opposed to the radical idea of his daughter becoming a doctor but eventually came round and agreed to do all in his power, both financially and otherwise, to support Elizabeth in the long uphill battle.

Epicurus ' teachings were introduced into medical philosophy and practice by the Epicurean doctor Asclepiades of Bithynia, who was the first physician who introduced Greek medicine in Rome.

If we are to specify this doctor's normality in sensory terms, we must make reference to a second doctor who, when inspecting the sense organs of the first doctor, would himself have to have the sense data a normal observer has when inspecting the sense organs of a subject who is a normal observer.

St. Thomas Aquinas, a prominent doctor of the Catholic Church, was the first to write a full treatment of the relationship, differences, and similarities between faith — an intellectual assent — and reason, predominately in his Summa Theologica, De Veritate, and Summa contra Gentiles.

He became a member of the first class at the College of Philadelphia ( now the University of Pennsylvania ) in 1751 and graduated in 1757, receiving his masters degree in 1760, and a doctor in law ( honorary ) in 1790.

Culinary advice was influenced by the theory of humors, first put forth by the ancient Greek doctor Claudius Aelius Galenus.

* In the 1945 film Kings Row, Parris Mitchell, a psychiatrist played by Robert Cummings, recites the first two stanzas of " Invictus " to his friend Drake McHugh, played by Ronald Reagan, before revealing to Drake that his legs were unnecessarily amputated by a cruel doctor.

by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States ' first female doctor.

Hufeland was an influential doctor who was active in medical research and became a medical professor at Jena and, later, the first dean of medicine at the University of Berlin.

Charles Eastman was one of the first Native Americans to become certified as a Medical Doctor | medical doctor, after he graduated from Boston University.

* 1715 – Dorothea Erxleben, German, first female medical doctor ( d. 1762 )

From 1870-1883, there were a large number of improvements ; the building of Trumland pier, island schools, a public market, the first steamship service, a post office, and the first resident doctor.

* 1947 – Temple Grandin, American doctor and activist

* Mary Bruins Allison ( born 1903 ), American doctor and missionary

Canada lies somewhere between British and American usage of the degree and terminology of " doctor ".

* 1883 – Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor ( b. 1833 )

In such places, the more general English terms doctor or medical practitioner are prevalent, describing any practitioner of medicine ( whom an American would likely call a physician, in the broad sense ).

Rather than undergo surgery ( a risky procedure in 1856 ), the Gosses decided to submit to the ointments of an American doctor, Jesse Weldon Fell, who if not a charlatan, was certainly on the fringe of contemporary medical practice.

By Amundsen's own estimation, the doctor for the expedition, American Frederick Cook, probably saved the crew from scurvy by hunting for animals and feeding the crew fresh meat, an important lesson for Amundsen's future expeditions.

* 1905 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish – American doctor and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1993 )

* December 14 – John Harvey Kellogg, American doctor ( b. 1852 )

** Samuel Mudd, American doctor to John Wilkes Booth ( b. 1833 )

Albert Abrams ( 1863 – 1924 ) was an American doctor, well known during his life for inventing machines which he claimed could diagnose and cure almost any disease.

* David Gunn ( doctor ) ( 1946 – 1993 ), American doctor and murder victim

In his book, " Last Man Out ", H. Robert Charles, an American Marine survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, writes in depth about a Dutch doctor, Dr. Henri Hekking, a fellow POW who probably saved the lives of many who worked on the " Death Railway ".

There have been at least seven cases of healthy male infants being reassigned as female due to circumcision damaging their penises beyond repair, including the late David Reimer ( born Bruce Reimer, later Brenda Reimer ), who was the subject of John Money's John / Joan case, an unnamed American child, who was awarded $ 750, 000 by Judge Walter McGovern of the Federal District Court after a military doctor was found guilty of medical malpractice in 1975, and an unnamed child who was circumcised at Northside Hospital, who received an undisclosed amount of money from the hospital.

Driven by sadness, Martin ’ s character, an American doctor, leaves his Californian life and embarks on the 800-km pilgrimage from the French Pyrenees to Spain ’ s Santiago de Compostela himself, with his son ’ s ashes.

Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, the daughter of James Webb, a doctor, and Maria Cook-Webb, Lucy was descended from seven veterans of the American Revolution.

* Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge ( 1739 – 1819 ), a doctor, a legislator, a colonel of the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War

The book is written from the perspectives of several people-Merlin Van Tornhout and Johnny Reeves, both members of the Ku Klux Klan, Sara Chickering, a farmer, Esther Hirsh, a six-year-old Jewish girl, Leonora Sutter, an African American girl, Iris Weaver, a resteraunteur, Harvey and Viola Pettibone, who are shop owners, Reynard Alexander, a newspaper editor, Fitzgerald Flitt, the doctor, and Percelle Johnson, the town constable.

Set in 1949-50 Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter Mark Elliot ( played by William Holden ), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor Han Suyin originally from China ( played by Jennifer Jones ), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society.

The widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin ( Jones ) falls in love with the married-but-separated American correspondent Mark Elliott ( Holden ) in Hong Kong, during the period of China's Civil War in the late 1940s.

David Shepard, American doctor and soldier ; an early proponent of inoculation to prevent small pox

* Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge ( 1739 – 1819 ) was a doctor, a colonel of the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War, and a member of the Massachusetts legislature.

Dr. James Davidson, a veteran of the American Revolution, served as a doctor for General Anthony Wayne's army, was one of the first and most successful settlers in the Porter Township area.