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Glaring at Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 61, who translated Dr. Freud's books into English and introduced psychoanalysis to the U. S., Internist Harold Thomas Hyman, 41, began by denouncing the $10 an hour fee which psychoanalysts ordinarily charge for their services. Most patients, Dr. Hyman estimated, require 375 talking treatments before they end their course. Cried...
...great German family name in St. Louis is Taussig. Some are Gentiles, some Jews, some a mixture of both. Most eminent of the last are the doctor Brothers Taussig: Internist Albert Ernst, 64, a Unitarian; Gynecologist Frederick Joseph, 63, an Ethical Culturist. Like most male St. Louis Taussigs, both brothers went to Harvard for undergraduate education. They, and later Albert's two sons, returned to Washington University for medical training. Orphans of a wealthy Jewish banker-broker, reared by two spinster aunts, they lived well at school, got a running start in the practice of medicine...
...tall, cadaverous Dr. Albert. The late, great Jane Addams always was houseguest of the Fred Taussigs when she went to St. Louis. Because he is so strict and meticulous in his clinical work, students and younger gynecologists who work with Dr. Fred in clinics consider him old-maidish. Internist Albert is considered to have a larger practice than Gynecologist Fred...
...President of the A. M. A. is Dr. Dean De Witt Lewis, wealthy Baltimore (Johns Hopkins) surgeon, elected last year. Elected last week to be president for 1934-35 was Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring. 64, rich Des Moines internist, able diagnostician, a descendant of Vitus Jonassen Bering for whom Bering Strait was named. Dr. Bierring reads, writes and fondly speaks Danish, German, French. His polyglot library is one of Des Moines' most extensive. He takes a brief case full of books on his frequent lecture tours of Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses...
...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...