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Only four doctors have been considered eminent enough to win this privilege: Dr. Bela Schick, inventor of the Schick test for diphtheria immunity (not to be confused with Jacob Schick, inventor of the Schick razor); Nobelman George Hoyt Whipple, co-discoverer of the liver treatment for anemia; Dr. Manfred Sakel...
No less than three first editions of medicine's great classic-De Motu Cordis, by William Harvey (1578-1657), discoverer of the circulation of the blood, have passed through Mr. Schuman's hands. About 17 first editions of this work are extant. The third copy, worth several thousand...
The assessment was the handiwork of Alfred L. Kirby, professional revenue bloodhound for taxing bodies. In Hillsborough's employ, Kirby found that Mrs. Cromwell had never made a return on her intangible property, legally due ever since she was 21. She has paid some $20,000 annually on her...
It was not for reasons of piety that the discoverer of the Java Man withdrew the fossils from further examination until 1926. Only his immediate family knows the real reason, and I am now writing the story of my father's life and discoveries, in which I will mention...
Just before dark, one evening last week in Toronto, a big, camouflaged bomber swooped in from the east. From it was taken the mortal remains of Major Sir Frederick Grant Banting, world-famed co-discoverer of insulin, dead at 49 after a bomber in which he was flying to England...