Word: mclester
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...James Somerville McLester of Birmingham, ingoing A. M. A. president and crack dietary expert, drew respectful attention when he declared: "The American people are acutely food conscious and will eat anything they are told is healthful. The cheaper cereals can be used as the mainstay of the diet, provided properly selected supplementary foods, such as liver and lettuce, are added in suitable amounts. Because of its high supplementary value in a diet of cereals as well as of other foods, a place must be provided in the household budget for definite quantities of milk and milk products. Even with today...
...they will see portly Dr. James Somerville McLester, 58, of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Ala. installed as president of A. M. A. Like Dr. Bierring and other American doctors of their age, Dr. McLester, when a medical student the last decade of last century, was excited by the flood of bacteriological discoveries then pouring from the laboratories of Germany. With a medical degree from University of Virginia, he spent a year abroad, returned to become professor of pathology, then professor of medicine in Birmingham Medical College. After that College had become the postgraduate department of the University of Alabama, Dr. McLester...
Last week Soviet protagonists achieved a triumph of propaganda by inducing the president-elect of the American Medical Association, Professor James Somerville McLester of the University of Alabama to lead a large group of U. S. doctors on a 22-day tour of Soviet Russia next August Tourists are promised "visits to hospitals clinics, sanatoriums, theatres, art galleries, museums, meetings with the leader of the Medical World in Russia and else where, direct contact with the Russian system of Medical Practice, a glimpse of the Russian Industrialization and Collectivization, its methods and developments." Excuse for the junket: the 15th International...