Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the Department's activity so far has been in the form of seminars for policemen, lawyers, doctors, and newspapermen. These conferences here and away have introduced or increased the use of legal medicine in 12 other states so far.
"Of course if we stimulate a bigger demand for skilled medical examiners we must help provide a bigger supply," Ford points out. The Department gives its courses to 150 students in Harvard and Yale medical schools and the Harvard Law School.
The Department is glad to offer its services free of charge. "Not only do our investigations sometimes aid the police, but they also build up our own teaching material," says Dr. Richard Ford, assistant professor of pathology and acting head of the Department.
The lady behind all this--the Mrs. Lee whose check created the Department is 1939--is still very active in her lifelong hobby of legal medicine. Not only has "Granma" Lee taught the Department many of its tricks, but she has spent much of her time making a gallery of...
This exhibit, which she calls the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, results on view in the Medical School. Exact to scale and complete even in lighting affects, the gallery is a valuable study exhibit for the Department's courses and seminars.