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...Harriet" doubtless heard Anatomist Weaver grumble that the 3,000 Confederate cadavers furnished him little new information about anatomy. She doubtless heard him complain about the difficulty of getting good specimens to dissect. She doubtless heard him yearn to be the first anatomist to make a thorough dissection of the human cerebrospinal nervous system from head to heel, from spine to sternum...
Wanda Kirkbridge Farr (in private life Mrs. R. C. Saulwetter) is a shapely, well-dressed, vivacious cytorogist (cell anatomist) who got her master's degree at Columbia, did skin & cancer research in St. Louis, taught botany there, experimented for a time at the Boyce Thompson Institute, is now a government cotton technologist. Dr. Sophia H. Eckerson got her Ph. D. at University of Chicago, is a learned, shy spinster not far from 60. has been at Boyce Thompson for 14 years, is known to colleagues male & female as a clever and learned worker with plants...
When frail, tired "N. Lenin" (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) died in 1924, the Bolshevist high command decided upon a strictly non-Christian apotheosis. A conference of scientists was called to find means of preserving the body. Biochemist Boris Ilyich Zbarsky and Anatomist Vladimir Petrovich Vorobev offered to try, worked four months on the cadaver, which subsequently appeared under glass in a temporary tomb in the Red Square. When plans for the permanent tomb had finally been agreed on, the corpse vanished for 18 months into the recesses of the Kremlin. At last in 1930 the new mausoleum was completed...
...Guyton, 51, University of Virginia graduate, who became acting dean. Dr. John Nathan Simpson, 66, who founded West Virginia's medical school in 1902 and has been dean ever since, turned his office over to Dr. Edward Jerald Van Liere, 39, who reluctantly became acting dean. Georgia promoted Anatomist George Lombard Kelly, 45, from vice dean to full dean...
Soon as a baby is born, tagged, foot-printed and washed in Cleveland's splendid Maternity Hospital, one of the assistants of Professor Thomas Wingate Todd, Western Reserve University's anthropologically minded anatomist, marches in with calipers and measuring tape. She measures the baby from head to foot- feet, shins, thighs; hands, forearms, arms; feet to crest of head, rump to top of head; breadth and depth of head. The baby may wriggle and mew but willy-nilly he is one more mannikin in a long, laborious, illuminating research...