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Exempted by draft boards when they enroll in the Merchant Marine Naval Reserve "for inactive duty," they spend five weeks in preliminary training. Then they are given eight weeks' specialized training as seamen, firemen, water tenders, oilers, messmen, cooks, bakers, clerks and pharmacist's mates. Trainees are taught to handle themselves in a lifeboat, spend a total of 90 hours on lifeboat drill alone...
...doctor was aboard when a sailor on a U.S. submarine was stricken with acute appendicitis somewhere in the South Pacific. But a member of the crew-the chief pharmacist's mate-had once witnessed an appendectomy. "It was operate or certain death," wrote Lieut. Franz Hoskins to his family in Tacoma (Wash.) last week, "for the patient's temperature was 106°." So, with the help of the ship's commander and two machinist's mates, Lieut. Hoskins administered the anesthetic and the pharmacist's mate bravely cut open the patient, located and removed...
...pharmacist can tell you that heroine of the Soviet Union, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (TIME, March 2), has a venerable name. Saints Cosmas and Damien are the patron saints of the pharmaceutical [and medical] world. . . . Fact and fancy credit them with many medical miracles. They were victims of the Diocletian persecutions in the 4th Century, and their tomb in Cyrus, Syria, has been venerated as a shrine for centuries...
Ferryman on the Minnesota. William Worrall Mayo came to the U.S. from Britain in 1845. He became a pharmacist in Manhattan's old Bellevue Hospital, later studied medicine at Indiana Medical College, moved, after several stops, to the little town of Rochester, Minn., 75 miles from Minneapolis. To eke out his meager earnings as a physician, the lively young man worked at various times as druggist, tailor, horse doctor, ferryman on the Minnesota River...
Lloyd Dalton Lafleur, pharmacist's mate, second class, Beaumont...