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...sunny afternoon last May, 61-year-old Frank Hoffman, who was working on a farm outside Hagerstown, Md., began to disinfect the barn with a high-pressure spraying hose. Suddenly the machine jammed, backfired, showered Hoffman with carbolic acid and lime. He whipped out his bandanna handkerchief, rubbed his eyes, and despite the searing pain continued working. In a few days Farmer Hoffman was stone blind...
Several weeks ago, when the infection following the burn had abated, Hoffman went to Hagerstown, and asked Dr. Paul Nelson Fleming if he would ever be able to see again. Dr. Fleming examined his eyes, discovered that the fragile, shell-like corneas were completely useless, that each lens and iris had grown together in a tangled mass. He told Hoffman that he could only experiment, but Hoffman was willing to try anything. At Washington County Hospital Dr. Fleming removed the scarred cornea from Hoffman's right eye, straightened out the lens and iris as best he could. No human...
...Liveliest White House visitor of the week was 85-year-old Mrs. Anne Howell Kennedy Findlay. During the Civil War, on the street outside her house in Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Findlay's mother found a young Union captain wounded in the throat, took him indoors to be cared for. Mrs. Findlay, then a girl of ten, was leaning over the officer's bed when he recovered consciousness. She helped nurse him back to health. The captain was the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was at the little girl's house that Poet Oliver Wendell...
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...Squibb and Sons of New York manufacturers of medical and chemical products, have established a fellowship for research in organic chemistry. The first award of $2000 has been made to William P. Campbell of Hagerstown, Maryland, for research on phenanthrene with Louis F. Fieser, associate professor of Chemistry, during the coming academic year...