Medicine: Capsules, Oct. 24, 1955

¶New York's Yeshiva University this week is dedicating its new $10 million Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the first medical college established in New York City in 57 years. It will eventually be the center of a $100 million, 200-acre medical center, which will include a $40 million municipal hospital constructed by the City of New York and a $45 million psychiatric hospital to be constructed by New York state.

¶Dr. Emma Sadler Moss, 57, of New Orleans' Charity Hospital, became the first woman in the U.S. to head a major professional medical society...

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