Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surgical salute in the U. S. is Boston Surgical Society's Bigelow Medal, an honor for achievement in general surgery, which in 1926 went to New Orleans' grand old Surgeon Rudolph Matas for the operative treatment of aneurisms (TIME, Nov. 15, 1926). Last week Dr. Matas, 73, found himself presenting a similar gold medal for similar accomplishment...
...medal bore his own plump-cheeked, spectacled features in relief. Present, too, were the four asterisks which Dr. Matas inserts at the end of every topic in his medical writings to indicate that the topical "cow has been milked dry." Donor of the Matas Medal is Mike Sam Hart, big-boned, generous New Orleans Jew whose family grew rich in New Orleans public utilities. Mike Hart's late sister, Violet Ida Hart, singer, was long a Matas patient. Her dying wish: "We must do something big for Dr. Matas, something that really will show our appreciation...
...Matas Medal: to be awarded now & then by a self-perpetuating board of four Tulane University surgeons for contributions to the surgery of blood vessels...
First recipient of the Matas Medal was Professor Mont Rogers Reid of the University of Cincinnati, who advanced the Matas technique in vascular surgery...
Awarded. To Dr. Harlow Shapley, astronomer, director of Harvard Observatory: the (British) Royal Astronomical Society's gold medal*, for studies on the structure and dimensions of the galactic system (conglomerations of stars, such as the Milky...