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President Wilson's was but one of the mighty minds whose disintegration the late Professor Francis Xavier Dercum, Philadelphia neurologist, managed to retard. Of all such cases, and of many a pettier one. Professor Dercum kept records. His filing cabinets, like the files of most physicians, described the secret weaknesses and vices of his clients, became invaluable to historians and blackmailers. Professor Dercum died suddenly last year, as he opened proceedings of the American Philosophical Society(TIME, May 4). He had been forethoughtful. In his will he instructed Mrs. Dercum to destroy every case record...
Died. Dr. Francis Xavier Dercum, 74, president of the American Philosophical Society (oldest U. S. scientific association, founded in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin), discoverer of the painful fatty disease adiposis dolorosa, an eminent neurologist; of heart disease; in Philadelphia, as he was sitting in Franklin's "ladder-chair"* and about to open the Society's most ambitious program, a survey, by three dozen speakers, of the current world...
...discover it, Dr. Francis Xavier Dercum, President of the American Philosophical Society, last week set bravely forth. Assisting him are 41 men, each and every one high on the honor roll of U. S. savants...
...violent tragedy causes to be brought forth from his rage and his despair the question. "why?"--"This 'why' remained standing before him like a pillar, cleaving the distant fog, and toward that pillar he would have to wander involuntarily and almost unconsciously." Laudin comes into contact with Louise Dercum, a famous actres, in whose personality seems to be mirrored all life; through her he attempts to grasp an answer to this "Why," but in the end finds only unconsciousness and nothingness. He goes home. On the other side of a door is his wife Pia, who had become absorbed...
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