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...years ago wiry, bright-eyed Dr. Cushing laid down his scalpel. But neither his patients nor his students have forgotten him. In 1932, a group of former students and associates formed the Harvey Cushing Society, for the exchange of information on neurology.* Last week, at Yale University, most of the 46 members of the Society, together with a large group of physicians from Vancouver to Boston, met to celebrate the 70th birthday of the world's greatest neurologist. For two and a half days the scientists presented brief reports on their latest accomplishments. On April 8, they capped...
...abdominal tumor. In bewilderment he picked at the tumor, discovered, while the class roared with laughter, that it was no tumor but a cake, covered with reddish-brown icing, and surrounded with "areas of degeneration" made of jelly. Gravely and skillfully Dr. Cullen picked up a scalpel, performed an operation, gave every student a slice...
...amazing surgical dexterity spread his name all over the world, and lesser men seated in the operating theatre would gasp in admiration as Dr. Kelly, a scalpel in each hand, would boldly slash left & right through a patient's muscular abdominal wall. Dr. Cullen often tells the story of their first meeting, in Toronto's General Hospital in 1891. Young Tom Cullen was the intern assigned to handle the great Dr. Kelly's instruments. As Dr. Kelly grasped his scalpels Dr. Cullen turned round to thread a needle. When he looked back in a few seconds...
When the New Deal began poking its scalpel into U. S. industry, Allied finally faced the choice of divulging its financial anatomy or having its 2.400,000 shares delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (TIME...
This week, ex-Friend Pegler's book, The Dissenting Opinions of Mister Westbrook Pegler, was published.* Of its 85 reprints of his daily diatribes, only two were written without his scalpel. One is an ecstatic appreciation of Walt Disney. The other, a testimonial to telegraph operators, amazed even its author. "I am not very good at singing praises," he concludes, "having very little practice, and I hardly know what has prompted me to this extraordinary outburst of sweetness toward my fellow man. Just call it a change of pace...