Letters, 1964-1965, to Lewis Mumford.
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In 1892, the physician and medical administrator Simon Flexner began research on cerebrospinal meningitis, a meningococcal disease with an untreated mortality rate between 70 and 90%. Experimenting on monkeys, Flexner developed a promising serum treatment for the disease by 1903, which he used extensively during the epidemic outbreaks of meningitis in New York City in 1904-1905 and 1907. For several years, Flexner kept his serum under his close supervision, with the result that the Rockefeller I...
Edelstein, Ludwig, 1902-1965
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Ludwig Edelstein was a professor of Classics, The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Edelstein was born in Berlin in 1902. He received his Ph. D. in Greek at Heidelberg in 1924 and later taught at the University of Berlin. He came to the U.S. in 1934 and taught in the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University until 1947. Dr. Edelstein taught at the University of Washington and the University of California before returning to Hopkins in 1952 as professor of humanisti...
