Word: schweinitz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work, has made no serious contribution to our knowledge, through a period of years that has seen tremendous advances in ophthalmology. Though I hold no brief for any one of them, there are several men in this country who have been leaders in this movement-among them Dr. de Schweinitz, who gets honorable mention being "also the son of a bishop." A gift of four million dollars, the reward of a fashionable practice, may carry with it notoriety, but it does not make a man great. If you can convince me that your acclaim is well grounded, I shall also...
...becoming professor of ophthalmology in this institution constitutes an opportunity which is unlikely to be offered again within a genera-tion." At the dedication of the Wilmer Institute, Dr. Ernest Fuchs of Vienna (TIME. Nov. 25), under whom Dr. Wilmer studied 40 years ago, and Dr. George Edmund de Schweinitz of Philadelphia testified to the same effect.-Ed. Wing-Shooting...
...Professional opinion ranks next to him George Edmund de Schweinitz of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. de Schweinitz, 71 this week, is also the son of a bishop, in the Moravian Church. *Including his great and good friend Karl Sudhoff, also 79, world's leading historian of medicine, who traveled from Leipzig for the ceremonies...
George Edmund de Schweinitz: Foremost of American oculists; beneficent restorer to the blind of the priceless power of sight...