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...Protagonists- In the room were: Dr. Coffey, 63, square-faced, burly, choleric.* He is chief surgeon of Southern Pacific Co. and Dollar Steamship Lines. For the railroad he has 600 doctors working under him. They care for 70,000 railroad men and their families. On the principle that ''the health of the community is the wealth of the railroad," Dr. Coffey's staff help public health officials throughout the railroad's territory. Dr. Coffey is an important California executive and a political power in the State. Professionally he is a surgeon. Characteristically he is an empiricist...
...John Davis Humber, 36, short & stocky, pallid from years of laboratory work. He worked out, under Dr. Coffey's direction, the anatomy of the sympathetic nervous system. Together they have proved that the sympathetic system carries sensations of pain, that the terrific pain of angina pectoris is sympathetic. Dr. Coffey stops the pain by cutting sympathetic nerves in the neck. The Coffey-Humber sympathetic studies led them to their cancer work...
...with old tombstones.) She also gave up the motorboat racing at which she was enthusiastically expert. Last summer while she was traveling in California and thinking of founding a children's home somewhere with her inherited wealth (she is a devout Roman Catholic convert), she heard of the Coffey-Humber cancer work in San Francisco. She visited the Southern Pacific General Hospital unannounced and found the patients praising Coffey, Humber and God. Injections they had received had relieved their pain. Their cancerous growths were sloughing off. Mrs. Conners was persuaded that Drs. Coffey & Humber were on the track...
...entrusted to the failed Bank of U. S. (TIME, Dec. 22 et seq.). She knew how he had got into the cancer fight: at Lawyer Durbrow's request. Mr. Satterlee had organized the New York Better Health Foundation. Then he had learned of harsh medical opposition to the Coffey-Humber work. Why should they not have opportunity to work in New York as in California? he wondered. Let them have opportunity to prove their value or their futility. He dashed into the professional battle with all his tenacity and brilliance, despite the fact that some of his best friends...
...Satterlee sat immaculate at opposite ends of a long table. They intermittently scowled and smiled at each other. Dr. Hartwell, a tall, bald, big-boned, well-groomed gentleman, thoroughly hated his chore of speaking for New York medicine. But he and most of his associates want Drs. Coffey & Humber and their cancer extract kept away from New York. They are positive that the Californians have no scientific foundation for their work and claims. They fear that the hope of a Coffey-Humber cancer cure will persuade the cancerous to abandon the orthodox treatment of surgery, X-rays and radium...