Medicine: Adventurous Doctor

When the 1917 revolution broke in Russia, Eugene de Savitsch, young son of a prominent judge, fled to Japan. Later he went to the U. S., struggled against tuberculosis and poverty to become a doctor.

After his graduation from the University of Chicago, he studied at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the Bunge Institute in Antwerp. A year and a half ago he wound up in Washington D. C., where he now takes care of Congressional stomachs.

Last week Dr. de Savitsch, 37, published a swift, pungent account of his adventures (In Search of Complications—Simon...

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