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...Last week Dr. Simon Flexner, 72, let it be known publicly that he is looking for an able pathologist to succeed him as director of the Rockefeller Institute's laboratories. Quickly recommended was Dr. George Hoyt Whipple, Nobel Prizeman, dean of the University of Rochester's School of Medicine & Dentistry. When Dr. Flexner will yield the general directorship of all the Rockefeller Institute's activities he did not indicate...
...Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920) of Vienna isolated the specific germ, meningococcus, which attacks the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord and causes the disease. Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute perfected a serum which attacked the meningococci. That was in 1908. Mortality, which before 1908 had been...
...past 27 years the Flexner type of serum has been standard treatment for cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctor sticks a hollow needle into the patient's rigid spine. Out squirts a quantity of the germ-laden cerebro-spinal fluid, which has been imprisoned under pressure. When the squirt slows down the doctor injects the serum...
Hope of conquering infantile paralysis first arose in 1910 when Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research discovered the virus which causes the disease. He found it in the mucous membranes of the nose and throat, and suspected that it might exist along the olfactory nerve. Not until last year did Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan and Dr. Arthur Roland Elvidge of McGill University discover that the virus did travel up the olfactory nerve to the brain, then to the spine...
...sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...