Word: pathologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death rate is lowest for children at the age of ten and rises thereafter with age. If it did not increase, the national death rate would be only one-tenth as great as it is now. Said Pathologist Henry Swain Simms of Columbia: If the death rate remained at its lowest (one in 800 at the age of ten) man's life expectancy could be 550 years. Aging, the biochemists think, is essentially a chemical process and can probably be influenced if scientists learn enough about it. One way to learn more, Professor Simms suggested, is to apply known...
...inquest the Government's pathologist, one Dr. Vint, said he believed the Earl had been murdered. Dr. Vint further guessed that two shots had been fired through the window as the Earl sat at the wheel, that the murderer had then driven the car to the remote road and arranged the body to suggest suicide...
Thus, the medical examiner, the pathologist, the chemist, the physicist, the firearms expert, the fingerprint expert, and others too numerous to mention, participate in the investigation in order that murder shall not pass unrecognized and that all of the pertinent evidence shall be secured...
Last December, at 73, Dr. James Ewing, Memorial's director for eight years, resigned, is now Consultant Pathologist, Cornell's Professor of Oncology Emeritus...
Contrary to popular opinion, said Dr. Ewing, cancer cells are very like normal cells in growth and structure. (This opinion was amplified last week by Pathologist Balduin Lucke of the University of Pennsylvania, who planted cancer cells in a frog's eye, studied the cell growth under a microscope. Cancer tissue, said Dr. Lucke, does not bloom wildly, but spreads "in definite, well-defined patterns...