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Conference
Szczur
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Portrait
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Names in the News
Former NLM Board Member (1961-65) Dr. Saul Jarcho died in
September.
Dr. Jarcho was simultaneously a significant internist in New York
and a majorfigure in history of medicine for over 60 years. He
served as president of the American Association for the History of
Medicine (1968-9)and had been active in both the Friends of the Rare
Book Rook Room and the Section on Historical Medicine of the New
York Academy of Medicine. Literate in several European and Asian
languages, Dr. Jarcho continued to publish translations and
humanities scholarship into his nineties. His most recent book, The
Conception of Contagion in Medicine, Literature, and Religion was
published by Krieger just before his death. His Clinical
Consultations of Franceso Torti appeared last year.
Quote Unquote
"MacCarty and Connor, in a study of the terminology of the breast
suggest a scheme which seems simple, but unfortunately for British
understanding, it is written in American. ...They have reduced the
terminology to a score of terms...from which more accurate clinical
data can be inferred with greater simplicity (by Americans!) than
from any other terminology which they have had to deal with. Without
knowing, one can easily believe it."
"At the Periphery"
The Medical Press (London)
Vol. CLIX,
No. 12
September 17, 1919
Page 223
Cited by H.L. Mencken in The American Language: An Inquiry into
the Development of English in the United States.
Do you have a humorous quote about medicine, for use in this
occasional feature of NEWSLINE? If so, kindly e-mail it to the
editor of NLM NEWSLINE, mm354i@nih.gov, or mail it to NLM
NEWSLINE, 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38A, Room 128, Bethesda, MD
20894.
A Pat on the Back
From time to time, NLM NEWSLINE likes to run reports of persons
who have found the Library's resources to be especially helpful to
them in their personal or professional lives. The following is
excerpted from an e-mail message received from Lorna Springston,
Director of Library Services, Ball Memorial Hospital Library,
Muncie, Indiana.
Friday I presented a Consumer Health Information Workshop at
Michigan University School of Medicine Hospitals, Cancer Care
Center, Ann Arbor. The 6-hour workshop was sponsored by the Center
and they had invited public librarians from southern Michigan to
attend. At the beginning of the workshop I asked the participants
how many were familiar with MEDLINEplus [NLM's consumer- friendly
online resource, at medlineplus.gov]. Out of the 21 participants (2
health sciences librarians and 19 public librarians) only 2 had
prior knowledge of M+. At the end of the workshop the 19 uninformed
were raving about M+ and thanking NLM for creating this wonderful
tool. Many of the participants voiced the opinion that if the
workshop only covered M+ they would have the skills and tool they
needed to answer most of the questions they handle from their
patrons on a regular basis. The librarians who knew about M+ before
the workshop continued to be impressed.
Lorna Springston
Muncie, Indiana
July 31, 2000 |
