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Long Distance Clinic. Heart in New York. Dr. James A. Greer, heart specialist, in Chicago. Dr. Samuel W. Lambert* and 1,500 physicians on the Steel Pier, Atlantic City. Six thousand miles of telephone and telegraph wires. The new method of telephotographing. The electrical stethoscope arid recording device for heart beats, perfected by Dr. H. B. Williams of Columbia University. Loud speakers. Stereopticon...
...these factors combined made the A. M. A. long-distance heart clinic. Dr. Greer, looking at the wavy line of heart-beat record sent from New York to Chicago in seven minutes, in the form of a telephoned photograph, diagnosed: "Systolic murmur." Dr. Lambert, hearing over long-distance telephone, agreed; and the whole conversation was heard by all the physicians, who could check up the diagnosis themselves through the chart flashed on the screen...
...Story. Old even then, a man of fire whose life was dying away, Eliphalet Greer sat in his counting house. All the ships he could see from his window, spreading their intricate rigging against the New England sky, belonged to him. Eliphalet Greer was a lean and pious man; he had an ivory-headed stick and a great gold watch-chain; he wore a suit of black with lace at the wrist and collar; once a week he walked, Bible in hand, through the streets to church. In the graveyard above the town was a tombstone which he had erected...
...tavern; Parton bested him, went back with him to kill Eliphalet. They came upon the old merchant in his library at dawn; his ink had upset and a slow blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship...
...Pound Class--Wood (H) won from Greer (MIT) with an overtime decision; Freedman...