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...Gustave J. Dammin of St. Louis was appointed professor of pathology at the Medical School and pathologist-in-chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, it was announced yesterday...
Mice & Men. Nobody knows how growing children and adults get the disease (mice are suspected of transmitting it), or why some victims get an acute infection while others have a milder form, often localized in the eyes. Pathologist Helenor Campbell Wilder presented positive data to the experts in Galveston: in 53 cases where a supposedly tuberculous eye had been removed, toxoplasmosis was found. Victims were 14 to 83 years old; some had had symptoms only a few weeks, others as long as 32 years...
...suggestion was the work of one Dr. Svend Nielsen, a Danish pathologist currently employed at the S.P.C.A.'s Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston. After dispatching a total of twelve burly and belligerent New England lobsters, the doctor came to the conclusion that they were capable of pain. With a sharp, clinical eye, he noted that shortly before death "the tail is seen to perform small fitlike movements" and that it curls tightly when the lobster finally cashes in its chips. This did not mean, however, that "our humane friends" could not enjoy lobster meat without "those disturbing thoughts...
...Bernard Spilsbury, Home Office pathologist, was called upon to reconstruct the body. He spent a full day collecting the pieces, and worked all night making a rough assembly. Then he did a routine day's work, after which he spent a second night finishing the reconstruction of Emily Kaye. The resulting "masterpiece" helped to send her murderer to the gallows-where Sir Bernard, quiet and efficient as ever, was on hand to perform the official post-mortem and confirm that death had resulted from dislocation of the murderer's spine "between the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae...
...Evidence Here." The death certificate reported that Elizabeth May Ayres had died at 3:40 p.m. of "chronic myocarditis, chronic nephritis, carcinoma of the colon." Dr. Thomas L. Chiffelle, who was pathologist at Yale medical school at the time, testified that her body had been received a few hours after death and was soon embalmed. Said Pathologist Chiffelle : his examination did not confirm the causes of death listed on the certificate. Because of the embalming fluid, he could not make a satisfactory study of the blood in her body. Neither he nor a toxicologist could say what had caused Lizzie...