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...injections on 60 patients, with "highly encouraging results." What the healing substance is, and where it is produced, the doctors haven't the faintest idea. But they do know that in small amounts it prevents ulcer growth without inhibiting gastric secretion. Prize patient is the experimenters' laboratory janitor, who was an ulcer man for almost a decade. Now, after a year of fortnightly injections, he has no pain, smokes cigars, eats red meat, drinks beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors' Fair | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...autopsy house. There Dr. Osier went every afternoon, a top hat on the back of his head, a pack of adoring students at his heels. In a bare room furnished only with a storage vault and a ston'e table, he cut up corpses the old janitor had saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Osier at Blockley | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...James O'Brien, janitor of Claverly Hall and ex-amateur boxing and rowing champion, who daily sculls four miles in his specially constructed shell only seven inches wide, and every now and then paces a passing eight for a short distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aging Claverly Janitor Sculls Daily on Charles | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

George Jackson, retired poet-janitor of Leverett House and favorite of the house-members for many years, died suddenly Thursday at his home in Melrose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE JACKSON, LEVERETT POET-JANITOR, PASSES AWAY | 4/13/1940 | See Source »

Jackson and a record of nearly twenty years service with the University, beginning as a janitor at Smith Hall in 1920, and later as head of Gore Hall, where he held sway until 1931. In this year Leverett House was completed and he took the office which he held until 1939, when he retired after a house dinner in his honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE JACKSON, LEVERETT POET-JANITOR, PASSES AWAY | 4/13/1940 | See Source »

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