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Into the-amphitheater of New Orleans' old and vast (1,800-bed) Charity Hospital * stepped a trim figure with a calmly confident air: Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner, then 31, newly appointed professor of surgery at Tulane University. He had ideas about how to teach diagnosis and surgery to medical students. From an adjoining examining room the first student-victim stepped in. He had just spent half an hour worriedly examining a patient. Now Professor Ochsner called for his diagnosis...
...comment on your Aug. 15 article, which states that a famed New Orleans surgeon, Dr. Alton Ochsner, joined the ranks of those opposing fluoridation of public water supplies, I wish to take issue that "these ranks are filled mainly with crackpots." When countless numbers of reputable physicians, dentists and scientists also oppose the adding of a powerful poison (even in small concentration) to our drinking water, the name-calling by the promoters of this highly controversial plan would seem to be extremely out of order...
...Ochsner's disillusionment with fluoridation of public water supplies adds one more illustrious name to the growing list of scholars in the health professions who see through the pretensions of this pseudoscientific gimmick and its salesmen. How you must have hated to admit it ! ... Phooey on opinionated, supercilious TIME...
...Famed New Orleans Surgeon Alton Ochsner joined the ranks (so far filled mainly with crackpots) of those opposed to fluoridation of public water supplies...
...wasp-ishly called Ike's press conference "a miracle of confusion" (but far more confusion was to come). The first child in the Southeast to die of polio after receiving Salk vaccine was Eugene Allen Davis Jr., 2½, of New Orleans, grandson of famed Cancer Surgeon Alton Ochsner. But New York City parents showed their continuing confidence in the vaccine: fewer than 1% withdrew permission for their children to be inoculated...