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¶New York's Yeshiva University this week is dedicating its new $10 million Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the first medical college established in New York City in 57 years. It will eventually be the center of a $100 million, 200-acre medical center, which will include a $40 million municipal hospital constructed by the City of New York and a $45 million psychiatric hospital to be constructed by New York state.
¶Dr. Emma Sadler Moss, 57, of New Orleans' Charity Hospital, became the first woman in the U.S. to head a major professional medical society when she was installed as president of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists in Chicago. A nationally known expert in parasitology and the study of fungus diseases. Dr. Moss has a fascinating personal medical record. Born in Pearlington, Miss., she started life as a 3-lb. premature baby in a cotton-lined shoebox beside an open fireplace. Since then, she has overcome rabbit fever, acute gangrenous appendicitis, peritonitis, lobar pneumonia and mammary cancer.
¶At their annual convention in San Francisco, members of the California Academy of General Practice condemned the accident hazards built into the modern automobile. When a car hits a pedestrian, said the doctors, it is frequently the unnecessary adornments near the front of the car that maim and kill: "masticating grills, avulsive door handles, knife-edge eyebrows over headlights and spearlike hood ornaments." The doctors also called for the abolition of bumpers and for recessed and padded dashboards, collapsible steering columns, safety belts, safety doors and a legal limit on horsepower.
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