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Amid the squalor and duress of Britain's most "depressed area" (the South Wales mining district) a brilliant young physician, Andrew Manson, took his first medi-cal appointment. He scorned the mumbo-jumbo of outworn textbooks, went to the unprofessional lengths of helping dynamite a sewer at dead of night because he knew it responsible for a typhoid epidemic. Again & again in his crusading zeal "never to take anything for granted'' in Medicine he was thwarted by the indifference of senile or mediocre colleagues. An original thesis on the causes of lung infection in miners...
Quickly learning that "nobody wanted to be bothered with the problems of others," Orphan Victor Heiser became a plumber's helper, later a carpenter, finally went to college on the salvage of his father's property, finished a four-year medi-cal course in three years. While still an interne, on a vacation in Washington, he took the examination for entrance into the Marine Hospital Service. With no preparation, he was one of three selected from 30 candidates, lost 20 Ib. during the two-week grilling, got by partially on the strength of his knowledge, partially...
Last June when the Canadian Medical Association met with the American Medi-cal Association at Atlantic City, word of Dr. Connell's cancer experiments got about. He received little attention. For one thing, he had only cancerous mice to talk about at that time. Also in the scales against Dr. Connell was Ontario's tolerance of Dr. Mahlon William Locke, who in a swivel chair at Williamsburg, Ont. with one hand grabs the $1 bills, with the other manipulates the feet of long lines of patients, many of whom are later advised to buy Locke-designed shoes...
...that, too, England has a medi cine. Last week the country knew that the Ministry of Labor was keeping 175,000 of the 2,600,000 dole-drawers busy for three-to-six month periods in "reconditioning camps." Joan Fry Lakeman, famed tennist. was directing a Society of Friends program which would furnish gar den plots, seeds, tools to another...
...Columbia did not produce "for example, a success ful football team." (Columbia College, whence the team came, had but 1,818 stu dents.) A man who has been wondering just what Columbia is producing is Dr. Abra ham Flexner, investigator since 1908 of U. S. and European universities and medi cal schools, expert (1908-12) to the Carnegie Foundation, member (1912, secretary 1917-25) of the Rockefeller General Election Board, director of the Institute of Advanced Study, built with $5,000,000 given by Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld, to open in New Jersey in about...