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Explained Newark, N.J.'s famed Medical Examiner Harrison Martland: Margaret, apparently healthy, had a disturbance of the pituitary gland, one of the main regulators of water balance. While her sister and brother who also played saloon were able to excrete large quantities of water normally, Margaret's lungs became waterlogged, her blood diluted, her heart paralyzed...
...lasts three years. If successful, the candidate becomes a Doctor of Medical Sciences. Currently only two doctors are studying at the University for this degree. They are taught by Dr. Thomas H. Gonzales, chief medical examiner of New York City, and his staff, and by Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, medical examiner of Newark, N. J. This week Dr. Martland is scheduled to deliver a popular lecture in Manhattan on the peculiar lore of his field. Remembering that the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor before he began writing detective fiction, Dr. Martland entitled his talk, "Dr. Watson...
Also for the layman is a book recently published by one of Dr. Martland's colleagues-Dr. M. Edward Marten, long-time deputy chief medical examiner of New York City. Dr. Marten is in charge of the Brooklyn and Queens branches of the medical examiner's office, estimates that he has performed between 4,000 and 5,000 autopsies. The Doctor Looks at Murder* not only describes the various techniques which a medical examiner must have at his command, but is full of colorful if grisly episodes which stand out from his long experience...
After the young New Jersey women who painted watch dials with radium preparations began dying, experts denounced the use of radium internally. Particularly vocal were Dr. Flinn of Columbia and Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, medical examiner of Essex County, N. J. With radium applied externally and for short periods to destroy cancers they had no quarrel. But imbibed radium accumulated in the bones. It was certain death, because, before its ravages could be recognized, it had destroyed a fatal amount of bone...
Miscellany. And then there were a great number of miscellaneous items: nasal sinuses displayed by Warren Beagle Davis of Philadelphia. Harrison Stanford Martland of Newark's pieces of radium-rotted bones. How mites which live on rats transmit typhus fever, by Jesse Bedford Shelmire Jr. and Walter E. Dove of Dallas. The description by Fred DeForest Weidman of Philadelphia of the skin infection technically called dermatophytosis, popularly ringworm, and in certain advertisements "athlete's foot." Xanthomatosis, which makes children look like frogs, squatty and popeyed, and which Merrill Clary Sosman of Harvard found X-rays will relieve and sometimes cure...