Word: leroyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in this century Sir William Osier, patron saint of modern medicine, discovered that nearly 53% of pneumonia fatalities occurred among drunkards. Two years ago young Dr. Kenneth LeRoy Pickrell of Johns Hopkins Hospital, stimulated by Osier's statistics, set out to learn the exact manner in which alcohol lowered resistance. Last week, after a score of different experiments on 175 rabbits, he reported in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin the first satisfactory explanation for this important pathological phenomenon...
Iced Ribs. In remodeling the nose and ears of an auto-accident victim, a plastic surgeon usually has to snip off patches of cartilage from the patient's ribs. Such mutilation is unnecessary, said Dr. Claire LeRoy Straith of Detroit, for cartilage leftovers from, surgical operations and even ribs removed at autopsy can be used in plastic surgery. Since cartilage is nourished by lymph instead of blood it does not undergo extensive or rapid degeneration. And it does not need to be ''matched'' to individuals. Spare ribs should be stored on ice, said Dr. Straith...
...year from September 1, 1938: William M. Murphy '28, of Somerville, as Instructor in English; Leroy J. Benoit, of Newtonville, as Instructor in French; William N. Locke, of Newtonville, as Instructor in French; Charles E. Passage, of Dansville, N. Y., as Instructor in French; Arthur J. Watzinger, of Everett, as Instructor in German; Kurt P. Roderbourg, of Portsmouth, R. I., as Instructor in German...
...flight Boston physicians began at once to investigate the relation of human encephalitis to equine encephalomyelitis, and last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. LeRoy Dryden Fothergill and associates* announced that, for the first time, from a case of human encephalitis, they had isolated a virus which was identical with the eastern strain of equine encephalomyelitis virus. A few days later, in Science, Pathologists Leslie Tillotson Webster and F. Howell Wright of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute confirmed the findings of the Boston physicians and described four similar cases...
...Harvard band will play a new Cornell medley arranged by Leroy Anderson '29, and before the game will render "Pack Up Your Troubles--." Duffy stated that the latter tune was not to be considered symbolic. Don Gahan, popular local orchestra leader, who is a third-year law school man, will lead the Crimson music...