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Among this gang Mark Cullen was handicapped by his size and social position. He was a skinny, frail moppet, whose father was rural superintendent of schools. But he had plenty of nerve, and on Hallowe'en night (one of the funniest as well as the least printable episodes in the book), or on their petty thieving raids, Mark was as tough as the rest...
Most famous of these is his direct heir, Thomas Stephen Cullen, author of several classic texts on gynecology. Easygoing Dr. Cullen is famous for his work on cancer of the uterus and diseases of the umbilicus. Drs. Kelly and Cullen have grown old together, and next week on November 19 the Hopkins staff will celebrate Dr. Cullen's 70th birthday. Any tribute to diplomatic, sociable Dr. Cullen can scarcely fail to be a tribute to Howard Atwood Kelly, so close has been their association for almost half a century. Hopkins men know that at the jolly, informal dinner...
...amazing surgical dexterity spread his name all over the world, and lesser men seated in the operating theatre would gasp in admiration as Dr. Kelly, a scalpel in each hand, would boldly slash left & right through a patient's muscular abdominal wall. Dr. Cullen often tells the story of their first meeting, in Toronto's General Hospital in 1891. Young Tom Cullen was the intern assigned to handle the great Dr. Kelly's instruments. As Dr. Kelly grasped his scalpels Dr. Cullen turned round to thread a needle. When he looked back in a few seconds...
...bought a supply of radium, cured a woman of cancer. Eager to develop domestic sources of radium, he studied mining, learned that radium could be obtained from carnotite, developed a reduction plant at Denver to make domestic radium available. Dr. Kelly's interest in domestic radium, says Dr. Cullen jokingly, began when he lost $80,000 in a Mexican silver mine. At present he is estimated to have the largest private radium supply in the world...
...Henriette won acquittal, went to the U.S., taught in a fashionable girls' school in Manhattan. She married Henry Field, a preacher-writer ten years her junior, and for two decades, until her death in 1875, reigned as a famous hostess in a Gramercy Park salon frequented by William Cullen Bryant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Samuel Morse, Fanny Kemble...