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Cinema. Also last week, 60 surgical pathologists assembled at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for a postgraduate course on Cancer. Professor Joseph Colt Bloodgood taught them how to distinguish cancer growths by showing them representative specimens from among his 45,000 microscopic slides. Only a few were allowed to...
Conference. First formal presentation of the Johns Hopkins cancer film was to be this week at the National Institute of Health, Washington, before a Cancer conference summoned by Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service.
Since William Clark (Philadelphia) perfected surgery with the clean-burning electric knife and needle, many surgeons are now using the electric cautery in preference to what Howard Atwood Kelly (Johns Hopkins) in Cancer calls "knife & fork" surgery. The cautery reaches places which the scalpel cannot touch.*
Not many men have received such formal homage while they were alive. Among the few are: the late William Osier when he was teaching at Johns Hopkins; Harvey Gushing, Harvard's brain surgeon; the late Abraham Jacobi of Columbia, founder of pediatrics (children's diseases) ; Carl Gustaf A...
Addison's disease, rare and usually fatal malady which ordinarily colors its victims anywhere from a light yellow to a deep brown and even black, has been treated successfully. Announcement of that important fact came last week from the Long Island Biological Association at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I...