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...studied cadavers and anatomy books, watched operations, practiced dissection on pigs' eyes, finally dissected 20 human eyes herself. She is now working up a series on ears for Army flight surgeons. The Human Eye's text is by Ophthalmologist Peter Kronfeld, with a historical appendix by Anatomist Stephen Polyak, both of Chicago...
When founding father Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (N. Lenin) died 20 years ago last week, Russia's foremost biochemist and anatomist were ordered to preserve the frail little man's mortal remains for posterity. A black and red marble pyramid was erected on Moscow's Red Square. Inside the embalmed body was laid out, under glass, in a quiet vault where the people could file silently by. War closed the tomb's door, but last week Moscow scientists made their annual report: "Excellent color in the skin, firmness and elasticity of connective tissues, flexibility of the joints...
...anatomist pronounced the skeleton that of a man over 30. But professor Krogman won the case for the father by proving conclusively that the skeleton was indeed that of an 18-year-old Seminole-Negro whose measurements fitted the missing youngster...
Evergreen. In his early teens, 49-year-old Norman Rockwell, son of a New York agent for a Philadelphia cotton-goods firm, studied for a year and a half under Anatomist George Bridgman and the late Thomas Fogarty at Manhattan's Art Students' League. He worked a few months more at the National Academy of Design. That is all the formal art training he ever had-all, for his special abilities and purposes, that he ever needed. At 17 he was doing illustrations for St. Nicholas, Boys' Life, Youth's Companion. In 1916, just...
...boyhood friend, Dr. D. W. Bliss, could not locate the assassin's bullet in his abdomen. By using an electromagnet, Telephonist Alexander Graham Bell had figured out the general location of the bullet (see cut), but no operation was performed. A more accurate guess (through deduction) by Anatomist Feneuil Dunkin Weisse was also disregarded, but later proved by autopsy. A wag cracked: "When ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be Weisse." Two Points. Even though X-ray has long been in use, research on finding foreign bodies still goes on in the attempt to bridge a surgeon...