Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last autumn a U.S. blood expert, Julian Herman Lewis, announced that he had made beef plasma safe by treating it with alkali. Last week's real news was that Dr. F. Ronald Edwards of the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to purify it with heat. If one of these methods can be used for mass production, the plasma supply will be almost limitless-a 1,000-Ib. steer is 7% blood...
Lieutenant Colonel Herman Blumgart, of the Army Medical Corps, who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard, gave the chief address, entitled "The Doctor as a Medical Officer in the Army and Navy." Dean Sidney Burwell and members of the Faculty, along with representatives of the Army and Navy, were present...
Wrote Dr. Herman Louis Kretschmer of Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "There seems to be a prevailing notion that ... all that is necessary to effect a cure is to perform an orchiectomy [castration]. It is extremely unfortunate. . . . Results are . . . anything but desirable...
...isolated incident quickly became two. Bellicose Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. had degraded another enlisted man. Private Charles Herman Kuhl had written home to Indiana: "General Patton slapped my face yesterday and kicked me in the pants and cussed me." Kuhl, like the unnamed artilleryman whose slapping precipitated the Patton case (TIME, Nov. 29), had also been hospitalized for psychoneurosis...
...Died. Herman Ullstein, 68, youngest of the five German brothers who lost their famed "non-Aryan" publishing house to the Nazis in 1933; after long illness; in Manhattan. He helped build his father's 1877-founded firm into one of the world's richest publishing enterprises. When he left Germany in 1938, he crossed the border with ten marks in his pocket...