Word: immunologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Dr. Theobald Smith, 75, famed immunologist, pathologist (TIME, Nov. 30, 1931); of heart failure; in Manhattan. In 1893 Dr. Smith established the principle of insect-borne infection and practically wiped out "Texas fever," scourge of cattle. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research placed him on its maiden directorate in 1901, where he served until his death...
Last week a Paris dispatch reported another and possibly more effective attack on yellow fever. Immunologist Jean Laigret of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis announced that he had successfully vaccinated 3,000 individuals against yellow fever at Dakar, French West Africa, which is achieving business importance as a French hop-off for South Atlantic aviation. If wholesale vaccination is possible, whole populations can be protected against yellow fever as simply and thoroughly as they now are protected against smallpox. And communities will not be encumbered by the expensive necessity of eradicating yellow fever mosquitoes...
...popularity was the late Fenton Benedict Turck-doctor, scientist, esthete. The variety among his close friends mirrored the variety of his interests-Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree (see p. 45), Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Sculptor Lorado Taft, Entomologist Leland Ossian Howard, Politician Sir Robert Laird Borden, Immunologist Theobald Smith. As doctor he was an internist, with digestive disorders his specialty. Last week, at the behest of Manhattan's August Holland Society, friends of the late Fenton Benedict Turck gathered to honor the posthumous publication of a book by him-Action, of the Living Cell (Macmillan...
...unglazed, fine porcelain. They knew the size of the pores. The filtrate caused the active disease in monkeys. That confirmed the doctors' belief that they possessed the cause of the disease. "A very, very interesting addition to knowledge," said Dr. William Hallock Park, Manhattan's great immunologist...
...Mayo Clinic. Less complete were agreements on Drs. George Edmund de Schweinitz (ophthalmology), Chevalier Jackson (bronchoscopy), William Williams Keen (surgery), all of Philadelphia; Drs. Howard Atwood Kelly (gynecology, another Johns Hopkins founder) and William Holland Wilmer (ophthalmology), both of Johns Hopkins; Dr. William Hallock Park, Manhattan immunologist. Of the 19 living past presidents of the American Medical Association, nine were absent from all the jury's lists of "great doctors...