Word: welching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after ten years' struggle to make laboratory research, not a fashionable practice, his career, Dr. Welch went to Johns Hopkins as first full-time member of its medical faculty. His friends in New York tried to persuade him not to bury himself in a little, unknown Baltimore school. But the little school attracted not only young Dr. Welch but such giants as famed Clinician William Osier, Surgeon William Stewart Halsted, Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly. It grew with them to world fame...
...into the Fire. During his laboratory years, Dr. Welch did important, highly technical work on Bright's disease (of the kidneys), thrombosis (formation of blood clots), arterial disease. He also performed some of the pioneer experiments in the cause of diphtheria. Perhaps his most significant contribution was his discovery of a germ which became his namesake, the Bacillus welchii, producer of gas gangrene. This was his last piece of laboratory research. In the early 1900s he gradually moved into the spotlight, began "charming and beguiling" millionaires out of money for public health, lighting firecrackers under stodgy old professors, hammering...
...half century, Dr. Welch revolutionized U.S. medical education. He played a major role...
...Establishing the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, best in the world (1901 ). The original gift was for $20,000 a year, but by 1928 the Rockefellers had given it $65,000,000-much of it wheedled by Dr. Welch. The aim: to make laboratory discoveries immediately available for treatment...
...Linking medical-school staffs to large public hospitals, combining bedside medicine with laboratory tests and experiments. From 1907 to 1913 Dr. Welch campaigned vigorously for full-time professors of clinical medicine...