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America 1930-1939: Medicine and Health

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Herman Morris Adler, 59, psychiatrist and criminologist who perfected a lie detector for use in criminal investigation and whose work dealt primarily with the personality and behavioral difficulties and mental factors in criminology, in Boston, 7 December 1935.

Freeman Allen, 59, anesthesia expert and grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Boston, 3 May 1930.

Frank Allport, 78, ophthalmologist and otologist who advocated the examination of schoolchildren's eyes and ears and was reportedly the first to cure vernal conjunctivitis, in Nice, France, 3 August 1935.

James Meschter Anders, 82, physician whose particular areas of interest were medical diagnosis, clinical medicine, and the function of transpiration; at the Medico- Chirurgical College in Philadelphia he served as professor of forestry, specializing in the relationship of plant life to health, and chaired the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine; among his writings was House Plants as Sanitary Agents.....

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