American Decades
Deaths
Dr. Fred H. Albee, 68, world-famous orthopedic surgeon, 15 February 1945.
Lewis Allen, 75, nationally known radiologist and teacher at the University of Kansas medical school, 28 May 1948.
Dr. William Seaman Bainbridge, 77, New York City cancer authority, 22 Sept 1947.
Dr. Edward Robinson Baldwin, 82, tuberculosis authority, 6 May 1947.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, 49, codiscoverer of insulin and Nobel Prize winner killed in a military plane crash, 21 February 1941.
Dr. Rupert Blue, 80, former U.S. surgeon general, 12 April 1948.
Col. Earle Booth, 66, former Broadway producer who organized the Blood Donor Service, 12 September 1949.
Dr. Abraham Brill, 73, psychiatrist who first translated Sigmund Freud's work into English, 1 March 1948.
Dr. Harvey J. Burkhart, 85, director of Eastman Dental Foundation, 22 September...
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1940's Medicine and Health
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Allergy Relief: The Antihistamines
- Atomic Medicine
- The Center for Disease Control
- DDT—Before Silent Spring
- Discrimination in Medical Colleges
- Electroconvulsive Therapy
- Harry S Truman and the AMA
- Hospitals and the Hill-Burton Act
- It's Patriotic to Stay Healthy!
- Medicine and World War II
- Polio
- Psychiatry after World War II
- Psychosurgery
- Venereal Disease
- The Wonder Drugs: "Magic Bullets" Against Disease
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Medicine and Health, 1940–1949
