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Well preserved by the alcohol,* Jones's body was autopsied by Paris Pathologist André Victor Cornil, who snipped bits of tissue from the heart, lungs, spleen and kidneys. The lungs showed evidence of pneumonia and possibly TB, from which Jones was known to have suffered. The kidney tissue showed the effects of nephritis, from which the great captain had died. Pathologist Cornil had the kidney slides photographed; the pictures were sent to the U.S. Congress along with Ambassador Porter's report...
High-Speed Breeding. Trying to develop a blight-resistant kind of oat, Plant Pathologist H. E. Wheeler of Louisiana State University envied the wholesale methods of bacteriologists. When they want a bacterial strain that is resistant to, say, penicillin, they treat a culture containing millions or billions of bacteria with the drug. Only a few may survive, but the survivors multiply rapidly, and soon the culture is alive with the resistant strain...
...Summerskill indulged in a tour de force of long-range diagnosis came to the conclusion that the fool may have been right. Physician Summerskill worked it out this way: Aguecheek was drunk every night. His tippling could easily have caused cirrhosis of the liver Even Sir Toby Belch, no pathologist but a fellow tosspot, suspected this: "For Andrew, if he were opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy." A cirrhotic liver is relatively bloodless...
...University of Rochester's George Hoyt Whipple, 76, Nobel laureate and for 32 years the kindly dean of the medical school. The son and grandson of physicians, Whipple earned his own M.D. at Johns Hopkins, worked for a while as a pathologist in Panama shortly after the start of William Gorgas' antimalaria campaign; after serving as a professor at the University of California, he went to Rochester in 1921 as head of a school that was still only a bleak patch of earth. An awesome but beloved figure ("When he comes into a classroom,'' a student...
...camera's realism in the operating room and the unaffected naturalness with which the pathologist did his job packed a tremendous wallop. Fortunately, the woman's husband, an army doctor, had the good sense not to watch the TV show, whose suspense was painful enough for those who did not even know who the patient was. A few minutes after millions of TV viewers heard the verdict, the husband got the good news...