Word: welching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, round Santa Claus of a man, with a 5? cigar stuck in his mouth and a twinkle in his eye. He was also the greatest public-health statesman in the world. This week the full story of this remarkable man, Dr. William Henry Welch, and his remarkable career was told...
...when "Popsy" Welch opened the first pathology laboratory in the U.S., there were no medical schools that taught bacteriology, biochemistry, microscopic anatomy, public health. By the time he died, in 1934, at the age of 84, the U.S. had become the world's center of scientific medicine...
Frogs and Kitchen Tables. Born in 1850, the son of a Connecticut country doctor, William Henry Welch had no taste for medicine. He entered Columbia's medical school after a brilliant career in Yale, because he could not get the Greek instructorship he wanted. But once on his way, he gave his whole heart to medicine...
...When Dr. Welch returned to Manhattan he put up a great battle for a laboratory at Columbia, but the dean only smiled at his idea. Finally he wangled a little space in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, furnished it with kitchen tables and a few old microscopes. For specimens, he "skipped through the marshes" after frogs, once hauled back a croaking load on a sleeping car. From frogs he promoted his class to cadavers. So elegant was his dissecting and embalming that his Negro janitor mailed handbills to undertakers, offering to teach them Dr. Welch's secrets...
Edward J. Welch of Milton, Massachusetts, as assistant medical adviser; M.D. Harvard...