Word: pathologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most present-day doctors in Panama, Santo Tomás' Chief Pathologist José Miguel Herrera had never seen a yellow fever victim. Gorgas, Walter Reed and other early workers in Cuba and Panama had seen to that (see cut). But after performing an autopsy on the last man to die, he thought of yellow jack. He checked, found that all five dead were jungle farmers from an area 35 miles east of Panama City. He sent part of the last man's liver to Washington. Last week the Pan American Sanitary Bureau made it official...
...Chicago last week the thermometer registered a balmy 62°. That cut no ice with Bioclimatician William Ferdinand Petersen, Chicago pathologist. For 25 years he has been studying the medical fata morgana of the decisive effects of weather and sunspots on human beings. His latest book about them: Man-Weather and Sun. He is definitely against spring (TIME, March 25, 1946). This week he broke out again in his annual rash of anti-spring fever: United Press and This Week carried thunderhead interviews...
...edge of Baltimore went Poet Sidney Lanier, Viscount Bryce, and James Russell Lowell to teach or lecture. Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey and Walter Reed studied there. Its medical school, which often overshadowed the rest of it, also had its prophets: famed Physician William Osier, Gynecologist Howard A. Kelly, Pathologist William H. Welch, Surgeon William S. Halsted...
...Could there be immunization against radiation? Science should investigate the possibility said Colonel Elbert Decoursey, Army pathologist who studied atomic 'bomb victims at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He did not suggest exposing people to tiny atomic bombs as a way of building up resistance, but he did cite research with animals: rats that have been dehydrated (the amount of water in their bodies reduced) survived longer than other rats .when exposed to radiation; animals whose metabolism was slowed down before exposure also did better. Thousands of lives could be saved, Colonel Decoursey said hopefully (while the other doctors looked politely...
Some scientists' interest in cancer is more than scientific. Quiet, balding Pathologist Albert M. Harris was one of those. Day after day he worked in the laboratory of the Sioux Valley Hospital at Sioux Falls, S.Dak. His father, also a physician, had had cancer. Young Dr. Harris was looking for a quick and sure test for the disease...