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Dates: during 1920-1929
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August Karl Reischauer, missionary in Japan, authority on Buddhism LL. D...
Henry Longstreet Taylor, president of National Tuberculosis Association LL. D. Gettysburg College (Gettysburg...
Henry Wolf Bukle, general attorney of Pennsylvania Railroad LL. D...
Francis' Disease. Dr. Edward Francis, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C., told his astonished audience the facts of tularemia (TIME, July 23, 1923). Long known as "rabbit fever" among land-workers for its annual toll of thousands of rabbits and ground squirrels, this disease has been recognized as dangerous to man only in the last three years. Discovered in Tulare County, Calif. (1910), it was named tularemia. The germ in man was identified by Public Heath Server Francis in 1925, and the disease is known among the profession as "Francis' disease." Peering through microscope, poring over...