Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lean son of long, lean Public Health Man Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan, and strode out of the presidential mansion. He loaded a respirator on the rear end of his rebuilt Buick, and with his wife went peddling respirators in competition with Harvard's long, lean Professor Philip Drinker. Professor Drinker, through Warren E. Collins Inc., the cautious Boston manufacturers to whom he assigned patents on the respirator which has saved hundreds of chest paralyzed cases, sued rambunctious John Haven Emerson for patent infringement...
...Emerson, who runs a small shop near Harvard Square with Maxfield Parrish Jr. (son of the artist) and David Garrison as associates, counter-claimed that Mr. Drinker, assistant professor of ventilation & illumination in Harvard's School of Public Health, appropriated certain Emerson inventions for the famed Drinker respirator. Indignant Mr. Emerson has roused a faction of Harvard's Medical School to similar indignation, over the fact that Mr. Drinker drew fat royalties ($300 alleged) on every Drinker respirator sold by Warren E. Collins Inc. Builder Emerson claims that $1,500 for a Drinker machine is "robbery," sells...
...declaring that no members of the Medical School or the School of Public Health should take out for his own profit a patent upon any invention that affects the health of the public, the University has wisely refused to assume any responsibility for the approaching law-suit in which Drinker will attempt to save his name if not his money...
...into so many words a regulation which for years has been considered one of the unwritten laws of medical ethics is an indication of the tremendous pressure that was brought to bear upon it by the medical world and even the petitions signed at the Medical School. Drinker's performance has once and for all proved that the hands off policy of the University must come to an end, and that the medical code can no longer be left unwritten while a profiteer usurps the profession...
Although the Corporation as an afterthought tactfully suggests that the resolution is in no wise ot be taken as a reflection on either Drinker or the Collins Company, it is too obvious that as the University, retreating from the melee, determines to forestall a similar abuse, it is at the same time making a final pass at the enfant terrible...