Medical leader of the nineteenth century : career of Dr. Samuel Merrifield Bemiss : in summary, [1969?]

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Medical leader of the nineteenth century : career of Dr. Samuel Merrifield Bemiss : in summary, [1969?]

Biography of S.M. Bemiss, a Kentucky physician who later served in the Confederate army, taught at the Universities of Louisville and Louisiana, edited the New Orleans medical and surgical journal, and served as chairman of the Yellow Fever Commission and the committee on contagious diseases of the National Board of Health.

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Page, Irvine H. (Irvine Heinly), 1901-1991

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Irvine H. Page, M.D., was born in 1901 in Indianapolis. A graduate of the Cornell University and Cornell Medical College, he interned at Presbyterian and Bellevue Hospitals in New York. After his internship, he pursued his interest in physical chemistry, first at Woods Hole and then, starting in 1928, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Munich where he started a department of brain chemistry. From 1931 to 1937 while working with Dr. Donald Van Slyke at the Rockefeller Institute Dr. Page began a l...

National Board of Health (U.S.)

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Bemiss, S. M. (Samuel Merrifield), 1821-1884

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Lorenz, Lincoln, 1895-....

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Dr. Bemiss was a professor at the University of Louisville Medical School, served the Confederacy as a physician during the Civil War, and later spent many years as professor of medicine at the University of Louisiana (now Tulane). He also served as secretary of the American Medical Association in 1859 and was later appointed as chairman of the Yellow Fever Commision and the National Board of Health. From the description of Medical leader of the nineteenth century : career of Dr. Sam...