Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harriet" was a big-hearted Negro who worked as a scrubwoman in Philadelphia's Homeopathic Hahnemann Medical College for years after the Civil War. Among her duties was cleaning up the room where young Dr. Rufus B. Weaver cut up cadavers to show medical students how the human body was constructed. "Harriet" doubtless heard Dr. Weaver declare many a time that the study of anatomy was the most interesting of all the medical sciences. He loved anatomy so profoundly that he would never practice therapeutics as long as he lived. He loved the subject so deeply that he examined...
...Harriet" doubtless heard Anatomist Weaver grumble that the 3,000 Confederate cadavers furnished him little new information about anatomy. She doubtless heard him complain about the difficulty of getting good specimens to dissect. She doubtless heard him yearn to be the first anatomist to make a thorough dissection of the human cerebrospinal nervous system from head to heel, from spine to sternum...
When she died "Harriet" willed her body to the hospital. Anatomist Weaver put her in a tank of preservative while he consulted with other anatomists on what to do. Then he flayed and boned "Harriet" piecemeal, spent months getting out every last tiny nerve in her corpse. As Dr. Weaver freed a length of nerve, he kept it soft and flexible by wrapping it in gauze and cotton wet with alcohol. When "Harriet" became no more than a pair of eyes, a dura mater, a spinal cord and a lacework of branching nerves, Dr. Weaver stiffened her with white paint...
...CARRIE WEAVER SMITH...
...Because of their Socialist objections to throwing thousands of southern workers out of employment Inventors John and Mack Rust have refused to place on the open market their mechanical (1 sugar cane thresher, 2 cotton picker, 3 sugar beet digger, 4 weaver, 5 tobacco cutter...