Word: pathologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only sure, scientific method of determining whether an organ is cancerous is microscopic analysis. With a sharp, hollow steel needle a pathologist draws from a suspected growth a bit of living tissue, which is immediately frozen by a stream of carbon dioxide from a high-pressure tank. Then it is cut into thin sections and mounted on a microscope slide. The whole procedure takes only a few minutes, is usually performed while a patient lies on the operating table. If microscopic examination shows that the cells are malignant, a surgeon can start to operate at once...
Among the diseases conquered by sulfanilamide are puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), gonorrhea, meningitis, and streptococcus sore throat. Last week in The Lancet Dr. Sidney Campbell Dyke, consulting pathologist at the Royal Hospital at Wolverhampton, and his assistant, Dr. G. C. K. Reid, reported that tablets of a new sulfanilamide compound, M. & B. 693, short for 2-(para-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine, had brought about a "speedy recovery" in eight cases of lobar pneumonia...
Small, deep-voiced Dr. Herbert Fox, comparative pathologist of the University of Pennsylvania, studied the incidence of arthritis in animals at the Philadelphia Zoo, found this joint disease in the front legs of hyenas and leopards, the hind legs of antelope, deer and wild pigs, the necks and hands of gorillas. He concluded that in mammals (including man) the parts put to most strenuous use are the most susceptible to arthritis...
...others, in Philadelphia: Blakiston, Davis, Lea & Febiger, Lippincott; in Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins: in Manhattan, Hoeber, Appleton-Century; in St. Louis, Mosby; in Springfield, Ill., Thomas. †Diagnostician William Osler, Surgeon William Stewart Halsted, Pathologist William Henry Welch, Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly...
Last year Governor Leche, 39, and a year younger than Dr. Vidrine, sent that able man packing-he is now in private practice in New Orleans. Pathologist Joseph Rigney D'Aunoy became dean of University of Louisiana's Medical School, Cardiologist George Samuel Bel became director of Charity Hospital. And with Dean Charles Cassedy Bass of Tulane's Medical School, these doctors set out to regain for Louisiana a good name in the medical profession...