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Clinical Medicine: The present-day approach to the Cancer problem finds many disciplines of medicine actively cooperating toward its eradication, with much of this work being done in larger clinical centers. Surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy are complementary in this assault. An integrated knowledge of the basic sciences provides the background for the progress being made.
ROBERTS, John Bingham, American surgeon and author: b. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 29, 1852; d. there, Nov. 28, 1924. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1871, he received his medical degree at the Jefferson Medical College in 1874. Attending physician and lecturer on clinical medicine at the Jefferson Medical College Hospital, and lecturer on anatomy and surgery at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy and the University of Pennsylvania, he held several other professional appointments.
RICHARDS, rich'erdz, Dickinson Woodruff, American physician and Nobel Prize winner : b. Orange, N.J., Oct. 30, 1895. He studied at Yale University (B.A., 1917) and Columbia University (M.A., 1922; M.D., 1923) and from 1927 to 1928 was a research fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, England. Richards returned to Columbia University in 1928 to carry out research in the field of pulmonary and cardiac physiology as an associate professor of clinical medicine. |
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