Word: welches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aged 67, Dr. Welch joined the medical reserve corps, was commissioned major. Continuing his research work, he discovered the Welch bacillus (named by others), the gas-producing organism causing "gas gangrene" which attacked many a wounded soldier. In recognition of this and other work he was commissioned brigadier general in the Officers Reserve Corps...
...Welch Rabbits," a cartoon in a Yale classbook, depicted Dr. Welch as a magician. From a silk hat he was drawing rabbits, labeled with names of his students. Some of the rabbits' names: Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Simon Flexner, Franklin P. Mall, William Sydney Thayer, Lewellys Barker, Eugene Lindsay Opie, George Blumer, Walter Reed, James Carroll...
...Welch has held virtually every position in the Johns Hopkins medical school. Its first dean, he resigned to devote his entire time to the chair of pathology, which he held for 32 years. In 1916 he organized the School of Hygiene and Public Health, one of the first of its kind in the world, became its director. In 1926 he resigned "to give younger men a chance," assumed the chair of History of Medicine which he founded. Three years later he opened the Welch Medical Library, one of the world's great medical libraries (TIME...
When he was moving his office last year the moving men found a great pyramid of books in a corner of his old office. As the books were taken away, corners of a desk appeared under the pile, finally a whole desk. Dr. Welch was surprised; confessed that he had lost the desk several years before...
There is on record only one unfavorable remark by "Popsy" Welch about another human being. Years ago he was told of a highly disparaging remark made about his colleague Dr. Osler by a Continental scientist. A few years later Dr. Welch was asked to express an opinion about the detractor. For a long time he hesitated, then mumbled in a hesitating voice that he must be "a terrible person...