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...museums and medical libraries all over Britain. Fortnight ago he published the first popular "storybook of surgery,"* a book of more than 400 pages, crammed with forgotten incidents of scientific history from the neolithic age to 1938. It includes brief biographies which bring to life such geniuses as Galen, Hippocrates, Ambroise Pare, John Hunter, William Harvey, Joseph Lister. Bits from Dr. Graham's story...
Above and behind the mouth cavity, tucked into a cradle of bone at the base of the human brain, lies a reddish nugget of tissue, no bigger than a big pea in normal adults-the pituitary gland. Galen, the famed physician of antiquity, and Vesalius, the great anatomist of the Renaissance, knew it. They thought it gave saliva. In 1783 an Irishman named Charles O'Brien died at the age of 22. He was 8 ft. 4 in. tall. A curious physician bought his body for $2,500, dissected the head, found a pituitary gland almost...
...reported neutral military attachés in China estimate that about 100 Soviet Red Army officers have now arrived to advise Generalissimo Chiang and his subordinate commanders. The original conquest of China by Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 25, 1926) was accomplished with the technical assistance of Soviet General "Galen," later known as Marshal Vassily Bluecher and recently purged by Stalin. Hong Kong dispatches this week reported Chiang & Advisers about to attempt a Chinese drive to recapture Canton, based on rallying and reorganizing the large Cantonese forces which gave up the city without a fight, withdrew intact...
Liberal Arts: Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Lucretius, Aurelius, Cicero, Plotinus, Augustine, Bonaventura, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, Calvin, Spinoza, Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Hume...
...Arnaldo Cortesi of the New York Times as "very stormy." Cardinal Innitzer rested his case upon oral guarantees made to him by Reichsführer Hitler and Field Marshal Göring. These guarantees were rejected as insufficient by Cardinal Pacelli, who thereupon turned Cardinal Innitzer over to Bishop Galen. So convincing was the Bishop of Münster's tale of broken Nazi promises that the Viennese was reported "very much impressed" before he arrived at the Holy Father's door for a two-hour audience...