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...college, as might be expected, sees its actions in a different light. It holds that its main purpose is to enforce standards through its code of ethics. And that code says that no pathologist shall practice in any lab where the boss is not a pathologist; others might not live up to the college's code. The Government, said Oliver Neibel, executive director of and general counsel to the college, has taken the first step in its campaign of "harassment of the entire medical profession." The suit was filed, he said, to put pressure on doctors already overburdened...
Medical researchers have tried for years to train laboratory animals to smoke. And as if in testament to the animals' innate wisdom, the training always failed. It did, that is, until Dr. Oscar Auerbach, a pathologist at the East Orange, N.J., Veterans Administration Hospital, finally found a way to force the habit. In relentless pursuit of a sure link between lung damage and smoking, Dr. Auerbach turned on man's best friend, specifically the trusting little beagle...
Each successive stage of decomposition, Payne found, was characterized by the arrival and departure of particular groups of insects. With this information, he says, even if a body's decomposition were so advanced that a pathologist could not determine the time of death, the character of its insect population would be a dead giveaway to an experienced entomologist...
That afternoon, Trimmer and a staff pathologist did an autopsy and noted an odor of ether in the child's lungs. She was not known to have had ether, but the doctors did not mention the odor in their report. They listed "gross pulmonary edema" (waterlogging of the lungs) as the cause of death...
...about the same time, a pathologist named Langreuter scooped the brains out of corpses and, throwing a strong light down the throat from above, made definitive studies of strangulation. In 1900, Germany's Paul Uhlenhuth solved a problem that had vexed the authorities since the days of Joseph's coat: he discovered a chemical means of discrim- inating human from animal blood. The mysteries of blood coagulation were then elucidated-the blood of a person who dies suddenly, it was discovered, coagulates rapidly, but then, for no known reason reliquefies. The pathology of rape was explored-semen, somebody...