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...languished since the Renaissance, came on with a rush in the 19th century when Germany's Rudolf Virchow and his followers began to study human tissue under the microscope. For most of the century, the profession was widely regarded as legalized ghouling, but in 1889 a French pathologist named Alexandre Lacassagne cracked the celebrated case of the Millery Corpse-a grisly mess of rotting flesh and jumbled bones that, after an autopsy lasting eleven days, was identified largely by study of the hair and bones as the mortal remains of a smalltime Paris playboy. The public was profoundly impressed...
Died. Wendell Johnson, 59, longtime (since 1931) University of Iowa speech pathologist, himself a onetime tongue-tied stutterer, who could barely get his name out when he registered at Iowa's pioneer speech clinic in 1926, conquered his defect and went on to write a famed series of studies indicating that children stammer most often because of "conscientious but misunderstanding listeners, usually mothers," trying overly hard to cure what are only natural defects in early speech; of arteriosclerosis; in Iowa City...
Some of those first implants are still going strong. But there have also been some failures, and with a series of grants from the National Institute of Dental Research, Dr. Hodosh has turned to animals to find out why. With Veterinarian Morris Povar and Pathologist Gerald Shklar, he has placed 125 implants in the mouths of monkeys and baboons...
...Last week the Foreign Office in London finally got around to announcing the inevitable changing of the Washington guard. Next spring 46-year-old Lord Harlech will be replaced by Britain's recent Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sir Patrick Dean, 55. The son of a Cambridge pathologist and later a Cambridge don himself, gregarious Sir Patrick is one of Britain's foremost experts on international law. He joined the diplomatic service shortly after World War II, moved up through a variety of jobs to become chief of mission...
Albright, who got his start as a medical illustrator in a World War I base hospital, assembles his painting props with all the care of a pathologist preparing for an autopsy. For one painting, titled Poor Room-There Is No Time, No End, No Today, No Tomorrow...