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Died. Dr. Henry Ernest Sigerist, 65, longtime advocate of socialized medicine in the U.S., medical historian (TIME, March 10, 1947), and former director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine (1932-47), who retired to write an eight-volume History of Medicine, finished only one; of a stroke; in the Swiss Alpine village of Pura, Ticino, near the Italian frontier...
...dullness and against the various hazards of his job. . . . The doctor's work in the future will be more and more educational and less and less curative. . . . He will spend his time keeping the fit fit rather than trying to make the unfit fit." Famed Dr. Henry E. Sigerist of Johns Hopkins (TIME, March 10) added a hearty (but possibly overhopeful) Amen: "The doctor is now becoming the adviser to the statesman...
...Sigerist's announcement came as a surprise to fellow medicos. At 56, he will give up (in June) one of the world's pleasantest, most influential medical jobs, and retire to a quiet Swiss village. Sigerist thinks it is none too soon: his writing program, for which he has been preparing for the last 25 years, will take at least twelve years...
Born in Paris of Swiss parents, Henry Sigerist was brought to the U.S. and a Johns Hopkins professorship in 1931 by the late grand old man of medicine, William Henry Welch, first dean of Johns Hopkins' Medical School. To most U.S. physicians, Sigerist is best known as the nation's ablest, and most respected, champion of socialized medicine (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939). But social medicine is only one of his interests. Since coming to Hopkins, he has carried a heavy teaching schedule, directed Hopkins' Welch Memorial Library, reorganized health services in Saskatchewan and India, translated old writings...
...Switzerland, without distraction from students or politics, Sigerist proposes to devote himself to quiet reflection and writing. He thinks that his history of medicine will be the last to be written by one man: medicine is becoming so complicated that "next time it will be done by a group." He is already preparing an attractive blurb for his book: "It will be a history of human civilization with emphasis on health and medicine. It will tell what people in the various civilizations ate and wore. It will tell what kind of houses the Egyptians lived in and whether they...