Editorials: JOHN E. GARY, M.D. 1916-1970

Robert Gary Mennel, MD: a conversation with the editor.

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2006;19:374–385 B ob Mennel (Figure 1) was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on July 27, 1944, and grew up there. After attending parochial schools he went to St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia, graduating in 1966, and then to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, graduating in 1970. His internship and residency in internal medicine were at the University of Roch...

Some Excerpts from the John B. Murphy Clinics, 1916

the lymph nodes or elsewhere, that is one-fifth of the cases presented only local involvement at the time of death. This affords some idea of what may be expecjted by early operation. We are pessimistic, perhaps unjustifiably, because so many cases come to operation too late. In amputations avoid shock by novocainizing (*5 per cent, sol.) the freshly severed ends of each nerve trunk. Remember t...

In memoriam: Joseph Michael Foley, MD (1916-2012).

J oseph Michael Foley, MD (March 9, 1916–June 13, 2012) was an outstanding clinical neurologist and geriatrician, educator, academic leader, and professional statesman. His charisma, unending enthusiasm, joie de vivre, warmth, kindness, compassion, dedication, and genuine interest in people earned him friends and devotees among colleagues, trainees, nurses, and countless patients. An unequaled ...

Dr. Gary E. R. Hook

A fter almost three decades, 109 volumes, hundreds of thousands of pages, and immeasurable hours of editing and review, EHP is saying goodbye to it's editor-in-chief, Gary Hook. Hook is retiring from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and his position as editor of EHP, but not from public service or from the endeavor to communicate science to the global community, a...

In memoriam: Seymour Pollack, MA, MD, 1916-1982.