Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert Brigstock, onetime petty officer in His Majesty's Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat of Chief Petty Office Deggan on the gunnery training ship Marshal Soult. Crusader Van der Elst assembled 65,000 signatures to a petition for a reprieve; offered to hire a brain surgeon to prove that Brigstock was insane. Nonetheless the trap was due to drop under Brigstock at 9 a. m. one day last week in South London's Wandsworth Prison...
...chartered corporation called Research Associates Inc., the group includes Frederick Gardner Cottrell of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry & Soils; Chester G. Gilbert of Manhattan's Research Corp.; Physicist Frederick Sumner Brackett of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; President William McClellan of Potomac Electric Power Co.; Senior Surgeon Dr. Royd Ray Sayers and Engineer Carl E. Julihn of the U. S. Bureau of Mines; Editor Watson Davis of Science Service; Dr. William Charles White of the National Tuberculosis Association; Heber Blankenhorn, NLRB labor expert...
Died, Dr. Adolph Monaelesser, 79, surgeon-in-chief of the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War, later researcher in the therapeutic effects of snake venom in cancer and nerve ailments;* of chronic leucemia, possibly the result of inhaling particles of powdered cobra venom in 1930; in Manhattan...
Died. Dr. Jabez North Jackson, 66, able surgeon, director of health in Kansas City, onetime (1927) president of the American Medical Association; in Kansas City...
Newell Paige, a rising young surgeon, was assisting his admired senior, Dr. Endicott. at a difficult operation. Dr. Endicott was more worried about the tottering market than about the job in hand. He made a fatal blunder; the patient died. Paige, horrified, took the blame, left town, threw up his career, changed his name, brooded, talked to his dog. When he met the dead patient's daughter it was mutual love at a glance, but she found out who he was. Their ways parted-it seemed, finally. But thanks to a crippled old clergyman, who was a perfect dynamo...