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Last week the New York Society of Tropical Medicine met to discuss the progress of their subject, from the Crimean War to 1942. The speakers: Dr. Henry Edmund Meleney of New York University; Dr. Thomas Turley Mackie of Columbia; Dr. John Snyder of the Rockefeller Institute...
Medical Heroes. Both tropical and military medicine, said Dr. Mackie, began with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. In 1854 that determined British spinster took a handful of nurses to Scutari, cleaned up the filthy, stinking, overcrowded hospitals, organized a system of sanitary supplies, bathed, clothed and fed the thousands of victims of typhoid, cholera, dysentery. Bitterly opposed by hard-bitten generals, she pulled down the hospital death rate from diseases from 315 to 22 per 1,000. After the war, she persuaded the British Government to set up the world's first school of military medicine, organize sanitary...
Rebound in the South. On the Crimean peninsula, both sides agreed that the Germans had strongly counterattacked at points southeast of Simferopol. New York Timesman Daniel T. Brigham, covering the Russian war from censor-free Switzerland, declared: "The mere fact that the Germans in that sector are in a position to counterattack at all is taken to indicate that their situation in Simferopol cannot be considered as desperate as it was first thought to be. . . ." Capping the week was a German High Command claim of recapture of Feodosiya, on the Black Sea coast, one of the first Crimean points reclaimed...
...plan is to wait until spring to finish the Russian job, last week's action on the Russian front did not betray it. Hitler's armies had all the appearances of an army breaking its neck for the sake of quick victory. It stormed the Crimean Peninsula, hurled itself against Moscow's defenses, cleaned up industrial Kharkov, paused seemingly to gather its coils for a deadly new strike at Rostov-on-Don. These might be the final autumn battles...
BERLIN--The High Command today reported the capture of Yalta on the Crimean coast and other Nazi sources said German troops barely 30 miles from Moscow had penetrated and rolled up a Russian defense sector, capturing 80 stoutly defended bunkers...