Word: pearlington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first woman in the U.S. to head a major professional medical society when she was installed as president of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists in Chicago. A nationally known expert in parasitology and the study of fungus diseases. Dr. Moss has a fascinating personal medical record. Born in Pearlington, Miss., she started life as a 3-lb. premature baby in a cotton-lined shoebox beside an open fireplace. Since then, she has overcome rabbit fever, acute gangrenous appendicitis, peritonitis, lobar pneumonia and mammary cancer...
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