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...Lascoff's special gift to his profession was his recipes-to a pharmacist, a recipe is not a combination of drugs (that is the physician's province) but the method of making the combination hang together. Dr. Lascoff collected recipes old and new, developed many of his own. He was on the U.S. Pharmacopoeia's committee for the last four editions (a new one is published every ten years), started and edited the American Pharmaceutical Association's Recipe Book through three editions, and edited Drug Topics' column of advice to druggists...
...Chicago Daily News's George Weller for a story about an appendectomy performed by a pharmacist's mate in a submerged submarine...
Aboard a U.S. submarine in enemy waters of the Pacific, Seaman Dean Rector was down with acute appendicitis. The nearest naval surgeon was thousands of miles away. Pharmacist's Mate Wheller Lipes watched Rector's temperature rise to 106, knew his only hope was an operation. Said Lipes: "I've watched doctors do appendectomies. I think I could do it. . . . What...
Groaned Rector: "Let's get going." In the wardroom, about the size of a Pullman drawing room, Rector stretched out on the table beneath a floodlight ordinarily used for loading. The pharmacist's mate and assisting officers pulled on reversed pajama tops, masked their faces with gauze. From end to end the submarine, riding deep under the surface, was tense. Men stood by the diving planes to keep her steady. In the galley the cook kept water boiling in his kettles for sterilizing...
Last week Pharmacist's Mate Lipes was on furlough visiting his wife in Upper Darby, Pa. Of his first surgical patient he said modestly: "He had more nerve than...