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Early in this century Sir William Osier, patron saint of modern medicine, discovered that nearly 53% of pneumonia fatalities occurred among drunkards. Two years ago young Dr. Kenneth LeRoy Pickrell of Johns Hopkins Hospital, stimulated by Osier's statistics, set out to learn the exact manner in which alcohol lowered resistance. Last week, after a score of different experiments on 175 rabbits, he reported in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin the first satisfactory explanation for this important pathological phenomenon...
...while he still was Harvard's brilliant medical light, Dr. Harvey Williams Gushing was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of his great good friend, the late Sir William Osier. The award saluted a rarity, an able doctor who was also an able literary craftsman. The salute also confirmed Dr. Cushing's reputation as a thoroughgoing medical historian...
...coughs Dr. Hamburger praises paregoric, an old derivative of opium which children's specialists now say is dangerous. According to Dr. Hamburger, "Paregoric . . . was what [Johns Hopkins'] Dr. Osier took when he himself was ill with broncho-pneumonia." Habitual constipation, "excluding diseases of the intestines and adjacent structures," Dr. Hamburger declared "is usually an ill-conditioned reflex, often associated with the abuse of purgative drugs. Most of these patients can be cured by explaining how the mechanism of defecation has been deranged and by reconditioning them by persistent daily attempts at a fixed hour to move the bowels...
...maintains a mortuary book in which he enters the names of eminent friends when they die. Among the 300 names already inscribed are Thomas Alva Edison, William Howard Taft, General William Crawford Gorgas, General George Washington Goethals, Sir William Osier...
WOODROW WILSON - Edith Gittings Reid - Oxford Press ($3.50). A friend's-eye-view by an old acquaintance, author of a popular biography of Sir William Osier, The Great Physician...