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...gift has no connection with the organized Rockefeller philanthropies, but will be distributed by Dr. Simon Flexner, Director of the Rockefeller Institute, to the following hospitals: University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.; New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago; Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland; University Hospital, Iowa City, la.; Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; Physiatric Institute, Morristown, N. J.; Touro Infirmary, New Orleans; Presbyterian Hospital, New York; Barnes Hospital, St. Louis; Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto General Hospital, Banting-Best Fund, University of Toronto, Toronto...
...Flexner is an enthusiastic convert to the value of insulin, and declares there have been no failures in its beneficial effects. A committee of nine distinguished physicians, appointed by Dr. Banting, discoverer of the specific, and including Drs. Campbell and Fletcher, Toronto; Joslin and Fitz, Boston; Wilder, Rochester, Minn.; Geyelin, N. Y.; Woodyatt, Chicago; Allen and Sherrill,, Morristown, N. J., has just reported to the same effect, after nine months of rigorous clinical experiments. Insulin has in less than one year gained the complete approval of the medical profession. It is not, however, a permanent cure, and must be administered...
...Medical experts should be permitted by law to examine the bodies of all persons who die of peculiar or unusual diseases." This plea was made by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, who is quoted as saying: "The United States should have a law similar to the one in Austria which gives this power to experts of that country who are studying how to combat disease. Our hands will remain tied until we are allowed the same liberty." It was through the performing of innumerable autopsies that Pasteur came to discover his treatment for rabies...
...Simon Flexner, of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. William H. Park, director of the New York City Health Department Laboratory, Dr. Walter Niles, dean of Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Mathias Nicoll, Jr., Deputy State Health Commissioner, and other scientific men declared in favor of continued experimentation. " The origin of these bills," Dr. Flexner declared, " is based on ignorance. If enacted into law they would strike at the roots of development in medical science...
...much-heralded scientific events, turned out to be less exciting than was at first supposed. The Journal of the American Medical Association, official organ of the medical profession in the United States, carries an editorial stating the residue of facts in the case, on the authority of Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Institute...