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...drug industry will lose approximately $2 billion a year in profits, Dr. Douglas Waud, professor of Pharmacology, estimated yesterday...
...dawn to find his bedfellow dead beside him. "It was plain.'' wrote Davis afterward, ''that but for the intervention of his head the bullet would have gone through my own." To oblige Major General George G. Meade, Harper's Special Artist Alfred R. Waud scaled a tree to draw the enemy lines - and enemy fire. "Rebel sharpshooters," he wrote, "kept up a fire at me the whole time...
When not the target of hostile fire, the Special Artist was frequently decommissioned by the many illnesses and hard ships of the field. "I was down with an attack of the billious remittent fever. Brought on by exposure to the damned cli mate in the cussed swamps," wrote Alfred Waud, who was more artistic than literary, to a friend back home in 1862. Waud's brother William, who came to the U.S. from England in the 1850s and became a Special for Leslie's, fared little better. Wrote Alfred about Will: "Three weeks ago he had a sunstroke...
...memories of the subjects themselves. "I beg to say," wrote a major of the 9th New York Regiment to Leslie's in 1862, "that your illustrations of the victories on Roanoke Island are very correct." If the artist erred, he was certain to hear of it. Alfred Waud was greeted with derisive hoots for his picture of the charge of Sickles' Brigade at Fair Oaks, Va. in 1862, which showed the assaulting infantrymen with rifles at shoulder arms...
...obscurity that was hastened by the development of the camera as the most accurate witness of passing events. Frank Vizetelly returned to England, pursued his craft on a variety of assignments; in 1883, covering the Mahdist insurrection in the Sudan, he vanished forever during the massacre at Kashgil. Alfred Waud stayed on at Harper's, a minor commercial artist. Leslie's Edwin Forbes established a studio in Brooklyn and painted landscapes and cattle...