Word: mortimore
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...such persistent nosebleeders were Drs. Simon Back and Harry Lawrence Jaffe. Until they became internes in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital they bled practically every day. At Mount Sinai Hospital they encountered Dr. Samuel Mortimor Peck who was experimenting with the venom of deadly water moccasins. Moccasin venom contains an element, Dr. Peck had found, which dissolves the lining of capillaries which then permit blood to escape hemorrhagically. The same venom contains another converse element which toughens the walls of capillaries and blocks any such hemorrhage.* Dr. Peck isolated the antihemorrhagic substance, tried its effects on some animals, offered...
...that manufacture surgical adhesive tape paid practically no attention to the dermatitis which their products occasionally cause until Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U.S. Public Health Service ordered an investigation. Dr. Cumming appointed Dr. Louis Schwartz of his own staff to do the work and Professor Samuel Mortimor Peck, Manhattan dermatologist, to help. They published their report last week...
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