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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might have saluted himself for his formidable list of 800 medical texts ranging from the late Physiologist Hobart Amory Hare's Essentials of Physiology (published in 1888) to Dr. Leon Herman's The Practice of Urology (published this week), he saluted another instead: Professor Max Brödel of Johns Hopkins, the first & only professor of medical art in the world, illustrator of many Saunders books, crony of many Saunders authors...
Publisher Saunders had Artist Thomas Cromwell Corner paint a portrait of Artist Brödel wearing the sort of rumpled blue suit which Johns Hopkins medicos have seen him wear for 44 years. And at a jolly party in Philadelphia last week Mr. Saunders presented the portrait, to be hung in Johns Hopkins near the famed Sargent picture of the Four Doctors† who organized that medical school...
Johns Hopkins' Max Brödel considers one of his finest works of art a picture of an unborn child cradled in a pelvis (see cut). Gynecologist Howard Kelly taught Artist Brödel this phase of medical art. Dr. Kelly-just turned 80 and the only survivor of the Four Doctors-attended last week's dinner. It was Dr. Kelly who got Max Brödel to leave his native Leipzig for Baltimore in 1894 to illustrate Kelly's Operative Gynecology. That and other books by Dr. Kelly and Johns Hopkins doctors kept the artist busy...
Last summer Robert Paine Scripps suffered a throat hemorrhage shortly after he arrived in Honolulu aboard his trim ketch Novia Del Mar. Mr. Scripps, frail in his youth but strong in later years, confided to friends that he feared he would some day bleed to death. Last week that grave fear became a fearful fact. Stricken with another hemorrhage while his yacht rolled in Magdalena Bay, Lower California, Robert Scripps died...
Wilmington, Del...