Medicine: Physicians in Detroit

The medical names which stand biggest in the minds of the U. S. public are those of surgeons, not of physicians. A meeting of the American College of Physicians in Detroit last week did nothing to alter that fact. The men they chose to honor above all others were a young physiologist who probably will never practice medicine, an old physiologist who never did practice, and a re-articulated paralytic who has created a unique specialty of treating cripples such as he once was.

Thirty-five-year-old Eugene Markley Landis, A.B., M.S., M.D., Ph.D., of Philadelphia...

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