Medicine: End of Pain

Last week virtually every man, woman & child in the civilized world had reason to hail Dr. Leroy Leo Hartman of Columbia University with profound, personal gratitude as an authentic Hero of Science. What hundreds of researchers had worked toward since dentistry began, what millions of dentists and their patients had ardently desired, Dr. Hartman had achieved. After 20 years of experiment he had destroyed the threat of the world's most dreaded torture instrument, the dentist's drill, made painless dentistry at last a fact.

Handsome, amiable, deep-voiced Hero Hartman was born in...

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