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Such pupils remain gratefully loyal to Dr. Libman. Generous and modest, he finances able youngsters in medical schools, in research laboratories. He gets them paying fellowships, good hospital appointments. To celebrate his 60th birthday in 1932, former pupils wrote special scientific articles for a homage volume. They got learned colleagues and friends to contribute: Nobel Prizemen Alexis Carrel and Albert Einstein, Dr. George Richards Minot (who later received a Nobel Prize), the late great Dr. William Henry Welch (1849-1934). The salutes to Dr. Libman filled three Libman Anniversary Volumes. Dr. Welch, who wrote the introduction, needed ten epithets...
Pain. Long a doctors' doctor, Dr. Libman now accepts only rare cases which other doctors refer to him. Some of his old patients, however, still climb the high stoop of his brownstone house in Manhattan's East 64th Street. Up that stoop, as patient or friend, have gone Adolph Lewisohn, Samuel Untermyer, Albert Einstein, Alexis Carrel, Sarah Bernhardt...
...Libman's present preoccupation, and probably his most important contribution to the science and practice of Medicine, concerns Pain. Chiefly by evidence of pain can a doctor tell what ails his patient. Diagnostician Libman has discovered that people are either sensitive (i. e. normal) or hyposensitive (i. e. subnormal) to pain and that the sensitives and the hyposensitives show systematically different symptoms when suffering from the same disease...
Shrewdest aspect of the Libman treatment is his attention to the gall bladder, Gall bladder troubles affect the heart through sympathetic nerves. They also lead to gout. The heart can become as gouty as the big toe and can be as thoroughly cleared of gout by adequate attention to the gall bladder...
...Brooks, a handsome, comforting physician, is more concerned with the coronary patient's emotions than is Dr. Libman. "Anger, love, fear, hate, surprise more strikingly influence the heart rhythm than any physical factor that we know of," said he. Relaxation, music, diversions, congenial conversation are good for heart cases, prevent anginal attacks. Climate ''is another important consideration. The tropics are good for such patients, also Spain and Egypt. Altitudes may also be advantageously employed, especially as regards wind and air pressure. When the barometer falls, patients invariably come in. Sunshine is a good...