Word: pathologists
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After graduation Dr. L'Esperance married a lawyer, but went on with her medical career. She practiced pediatrics for several years, and in 1910 met the late great Dr. James Ewing. Ewing was a pathologist, just getting set on the course which was to make him the nation's top authority on cancer. He needed an assistant but when she applied, he said, "No, I don't want a woman." Strong-willed Dr. L'Esperance got the job. The pediatrician became a working pathologist overnight, improved her skill and knowledge by doing autopsies...
...Richard F. Ford '36, assistant professor of Legal Medicine, will definitely appear as a witness for the defense today at the trial of Doctor Hermann N. Sander. The University pathologist is expected to refute state evidence that Mrs. Borroto died from air injected into her veins by Sander...
Many infant deaths are reported as due to "accidental suffocation" because few autopsies are made, and most of these are not thorough enough. Dr. Bowden, chief pathologist for the state of Victoria and head of the Melbourne morgue, did a series of 40 detailed autopsies on babies who had died in their cribs, most of them supposedly from simple suffocation. He did not find a single case which clearly fitted the diagnosis. Sometimes, he reported, "the exact mechanism of death is obscure," but "in almost every case natural disease was present...