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Medicine: New Orleans Imbroglio

His face wry with suppressed vituperatives Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner of New Orleans last week sedulously searched for the scoundrel who stole the carbon copy of a letter he recently wrote to a friend, Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, professor of surgery at Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. Ochsner, 34, has since 1927 been professor of surgery at old (founded 1834) and ponderously named School of Medicine of the College of Medicine of the Tulane University of Louisiana. He succeeded famed Professor Rudolph Matas. Tulane wanted Dr. Ochsner "to bring...

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