Word: salvarsan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In common doubtless with many other of his former students I appreciated your record of Dr. Welch's 80th birthday party (TIME, April 14), but your otherwise excellent account was marred by one misleading statement, that which classed his European prototypes as follows: "Paul Ehrlich (discoverer of salvarsan); Koch (discoverer of the bacilli of anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera): Pasteur (vaccines)." If I may be forgiven a seeming irreverence, this is much as though you had classified the founders of a great religion somewhat as follows...
...Welch tradition, to teach Greek and Latin instead of studying medicine. He realized his mistake after a year, went back to Yale, then to the College of Physicians & Surgeons (Manhattan), then to Strassburg, Leipzig, Vienna, Berlin. Breslau, where he rubbed elbows with mountainous medical names: Paul Ehrlich (discoverer of salvarsan); Koch (discoverer of the bacilli of anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera); Pasteur (vaccines...