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...Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu, of Hahnemann Medical College, who looks like Harold Lloyd and has nuisance value among anthropologists because of his irritating lectures, was in fine, irritating fettle. He shocked his colleagues by declaring the whole concept of race to be "utterly erroneous and meaningless." He declared that early naturalists like Linnaeus and Buffon first tried to squeeze mankind into races according to complexion and other superficial traits, but anthropologists must now open their minds to the later discovery of genetic laws: Then the many differences among human groups will appear only as mutations within a single species. "Race...
...irradiation on hopeless streptococcic and staphylococcic bloodstream infections, with great success. Several years later, he was followed by Drs. Elmer William Rebbeck of Pittsburgh and Henry Alfred Barrett of Manhattan. Last year, after they told him of several thousand successful cases, Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital began to put in full time on irradiation, working up case histories, preparing careful fever charts, blood-count tables...
...Manhattan, Mr. Knott took his latest model irradiating machine, an oblong box of stainless steel, about two feet long. All week long, young Dr. Miley, aided by his associate Dr. Alfred Tuttle, demonstrated the machine to thousands of curious doctors, showed them a sheaf of experimental records from Hahnemann. Of 27 irradiated cases of septicemia (bloodstream infection), said he, 22 recovered; 71 irradiated cases of other bloodstream infections, including peritonitis and septic abortion, all recovered...
With his law of similars, and his minuscule doses, homeopaths claim that Hahnemann anticipated the principle of vaccination. Some of his remedies, such as snake venom for control of hemorrhage, are still...
Today homeopathy is a perfectly respectable, though minor, branch of medicine. About 10,000 of the 170,000 physicians in the U. S. have had homeopathic training. Their centre is Philadelphia, home of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, chief medical school...