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From 1903 to the day of his death last October, Johns Hopkins' Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood. famed cancer pathologist, megaphoned to every human being with a mole upon his skin: "Beware of death-dealing black cancer! Watch that mole and, if it starts to grow, have it cut out before it is too late." Dr. Bloodgood believed with many another wise cancer specialist that it is worth scaring the wits out of 999 people in order to save the thousandth man from death by cancer...
Died. Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, 67, famed cancer diagnostician and researcher, professor of clinical surgery at Johns Hopkins University; of coronary thrombosis; in Baltimore...
Johns Hopkins' Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood is a cancer expert who always "goes the whole hog" on what excites him. Last week he arranged to blarney & bully the fear out of his patients. This is a recent reversal of Dr. Bloodgood's clinical attitude. Heretofore he has preached: get an early diagnosis, no matter if you must scare the wits out of the people. Anti-cancer propaganda has had a fear motif, condoned only for its salutary effect on a supposedly ignorant, obtuse public...
...Bloodgood has arranged for Manhattan's Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles io organize a psychiatric clinic in association with the Bloodgood cancer clinic in Baltimore. Dr. Cowles, whose methods mystify and estrange many of his col leagues, has a rich private practice, a large charity clientele in Manhattan...
...Bloodgood's maddened cancer patients Dr. Cowles expects to calm with reason, compel with sense. Dr. Cowles will divide his time between Baltimore and Manhattan (traveling by plane), beginning soon after New Year's. How he deals with neurotic patients Dr. Bloodgood does not much care. Dr. Bloodgood's prime interest is to see many cancer cases, and to see them early in their disease...