America 1950-1959: Medicine and Health Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 66 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1950-1959.

America 1950-1959: Medicine and Health Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 66 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1950-1959.
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Carl Beck, 88, surgeon, specialist in treating crippled hands and arms, cofounder of Saint Anthony's Hospital and North Chicago Hospital, 21 July 1952.

Nathan Thomas Beers, 76, dermatologist, 7 July 1950. Jean Broadhurst, 80, bacteriologist who discovered a test for the measles virus, 5 September 1954.

Edward H. Cary, 81, eye specialist, former president of the American Medical Association, 11 December 1953.

Theodore L. Chase, 84, surgeon and cancer specialist, 12 February 1950.

Edwin J. Cohn, chemist, contributed to the development of gamma globulin, serum albumin, and liver extract, 1 October 1953.

Lewis A. Conner, 83, authority on heart disease, 3 December 1950.

Charles S. Danzer, 54, specialist in internal medicine, 19 January 1950.

Robert Latou Dickinson, 89, gynecologist, advocate of birth control and euthanasia, 29 November 1950.

Benjamin Duggar, 84, discoverer of the antibiotic Aureomycin, 10 September 1956.

Howard Fox, 81, skin specialist, founder and first president of the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology, 19 October 1954.

Annie W. Goodrich, 89, nurse, in 1918 established the first U.S. Army school for nurses, later established at Yale University the first...

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