Word: weiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slim young doctor strides through the wards of Montefiore Hospital, New York. He stops at a bed, reads a chart, scrutinizes a face, listens to a heart. He prescribes and strides on, his necktie, but not his thoughts, dangling loosely. He is Dr. Morris M. Weiss. Twenty-six-year-old Dr. Weiss already has two discoveries on heart disease to his credit. One discovery was that auricular fibrillation (a form of heart disease in which the heart fibres rustle like breeze-tossed leaves) was common among children. Dr. Weiss made the discovery by shrewdly interpreting the ominous irregularity of heartbeats...
...Robinson. McKinlock; E. P. Chase, F. Faulkner, S. W. Fon, and M. S. P. Pollard Smith Thomas Frazier, W. G. Goodhue, L. Grinnell, A. E. Heyman, F. E. McQuade, M. Myerson, A. Plaza, R. K. Safford, J. N. Trainor, E. T. Tryon, P. Vonckx, S. J. Weiss Standish R. J. Carpenter, T. W. Dunn, G. L. Graves, D. Greeley. D. J. Orgain, W. P. Osborn, N. E. Parkinson, K. Yamaguchi...
...Wise & Weiss & Houdini...
TIME stated that the late Houdini was the son of Rabbi Weiss. When I ventured forth with this information I was ridiculed...
...late Harry Houdini was indeed born to the name of Weiss. The father was a scholarly rabbi (TIME, Nov. 24, 1924). But let not scholarly Rabbi Weiss be confused with famed Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Manhattan...