Medicine: Culinary Bibliophile

Can she make a cherry pie, Billy boy, Billy boy? Can she make a cherry pie, charming Billy? She can make a cherry pie, quick's a cat can wink her eye, She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.

Had amiable Dr. Margaret Barclay Wilson heard the roundelay as a display of her old cook books was set up in the New York Academy of Medicine building last week, she would have applauded. She, professor of physiology & hygiene at Manhattan's Hunter College,* dotes goodhumoredly on any reference to good cooking. During the War she worked on the...

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