Medicine: Anti-Diphtheria Man

Two events occurred in Manhattan last week which poignantly stressed the short span of modern medicine, 1) Dr. Harvey Gushing spoke about the pituitary gland before the Harvey Society at the Academy of Medicine. 2) New York University promoted Dr. William Hallock Park to the chair of preventive medicine.

Handsome Dr. Cushing's 37 years in medicine have included practically all that is known about scientific surgery of the brain.

At the end of a tenement-walled, children-cluttered street of Manhattan's lower East Side works Professor Park. For 38 years he has been a great Name...

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