American Decades
Deaths
John Henry Abegg, 64, Red Cross official, 4 December 1920.
Albert Abrams, 60, president of American Society for Psycho-Physical Research, 13 January 1924.
Jasper W. Babcock, 66, pellagra expert, 3 March 1922.
Robert Bell, 80, cancer expert, 20 January 1926.
Edward Hickling Bradford, 75, former dean of the Harvard Medical School, 7 May 1926.
Nathaniel E. Brill, 65, president of Medical Board of Mount Sinai Hospital and discoverer of Brill's Disease, 13 December 1926.
WiEem Einthoven, 67, heart expert and Nobel Prize winner (1924), 29 September 1928.
Joseph Goldberger, 54, who postulated dietary etiology of pellagra, 17 January 1929.
William Crawford Gorgas, 65, who helped eradicate yellow fever in Cuba and Panama Canal Zone, 3 July 1920.
Frederick Robin Green, 59, former editor of Health Magazine and...
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1920's Medicine and Health
- Overview
- Topics in the News
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Headline Makers
- Cushing, Harvey Williams 1869-1939
- George and Dick, Gladys 1881-1967, 1881-1963
- Flexner, Abraham 1866-1959
- Flexner, Simon 1863-1946
- Kahn, Reuben Leon 1887-1974
- Landsteiner, Karl 1868-1943
- McCollum, Elmer Verner 1879-1967
- Minot, George Richards 1885-1950
- Rivers, Thomas Milton 1888-1962
- Steenbock, Harry 1886-1967
- Whipple, George Hoyt 1878-1976
- People in the News
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Medicine and Health, 1920–1929
