Medicine: Barometric Cadavers

Doctors, members of the American College of Physicians, laughed reminiscently in Cleveland where they held their annual meeting last week, as Dr. Thomas Wingate Todd, professor of anatomy at Western Reserve University medical school, reminded them of their student horror of corpses. Said Dr. Todd: "The medical student comes into a new environment which is saturated with strange smells and weird noises. For his first few months at school he is worried a great deal by the nonsense fed to him by the sophomores about the dreadful things that are going...

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