Word: magrath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suicides, very few murders can be made to appear cases of self-destruction. Placing a revolver in the hand of a dead man so as to have it remain there is any manner calculated to seem natural to a trained observed is next to impossible, Dr. George Burgess Magrath '94, medical examiner of Suffolk County and recently appointed professor of Legal Medicine, declared in an interview Thursday...
...concluding his series of Lowell Lectures, Dr. George Burgess Magrath, recently appointed incumbent of the new chair of Legal Medicine in the Harvard Medical School, outlined the striking need for expert administration of community health boards. With a vigorous denunciation of the ignorance displayed by inexpert officials, he pointed out that in many respects hope for future success in community health protection was dependent on the training of competent experts. In closing he expressed the opinion that every large medical college should provide its students with at least an elementary training in the legal aspects of medicine and should offer...
...essential that every medical man have a clear understanding of the legal side of his profession, if he is to render service proportionate to the scope and obligations of his calling. Dr. Magrath has put the matter up to medical colleges as a matter of duty, for it is there alone that a man may hope to find the facilities to acquire such training. The Harvard Medical School has taken a great pioneering step by instituting the new chair. It should now continue the leadership by making elementary work in legal medicine a prerequisite for an M.D. degree...
...University authorities. It consists of Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School, Professor Francis B. Sayre, director of the Institute of Criminal Law, Professor Joseph Beale and Professor Sheldon Glueck, representing the Law School, and Professors C. Macfie Campbell, James Ford, Earnest A. Hooton and Dr. George B. Magrath, representing other pertinent departments of the University...