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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg, 76, first surgeon of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center's pioneer Neurological Institute; after long illness; in Stamford, Conn. Knowing that certain brain tumors affect the olfactory sense, Elsberg in 1935 developed the current standard technique of testing a patient's sense of smell as a means of determining the presence of a brain tumor undetectable by X rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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