One of the greatest neuropathologists of Europe was last week denied a license to practice medicine in New York. In 1938 Dr. Otto Marburg and his wife left Vienna on the same train with their late great friend Sigmund Freud. They went to the U.S., Freud to Britain. In New York City, 66-year-old Dr. Marburg was given a Rockefeller research grant, a professor's title at Columbia, a laboratory in vast Montefiore Hospital.
But these honors gave him scarcely enough money to live on. Although in Vienna he had treated 3,000 patients a year, poor as well as rich, he had to apply...
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