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. 2011 May;80(2):97-103.

Tuberculous scrofula: Belfast experience

John Hedley-Whyte  1 , Debra R Milamed
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Tuberculous scrofula: Belfast experience

John Hedley-Whyte et al. Ulster Med J. 2011 May.
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Selman Waksman by Philippe Halsman, gelatin silver print on paper, 1954. Image/Sheet: 34.7 × 27.4 cm (13 11/16 × 10 13/16”), mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22”). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Steve Bello in memory of Jane Halsman Bello, © Philippe Halsman Archive, NPG.2004.45. Born in Prikula, near Kiev, on July 22, 1888, Selman Abraham Waksman matriculated in 1910 as an extern from the 5th Gymnasium in Odessa. Next year, having won a New Jersey State Scholarship, he entered Rutgers University,. In 1916, his seminal paper on Streptomycin, won him his M.Sc. degree from Rutgers. He became a U.S. citizen and was appointed a Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. The University of California granted his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1918. The remainder of Selman Waksman’s career was spent at Rutgers. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1942. Selman Waksman visited Ireland once, in 1946. He was confined with his wife Deborah to “a boarding house in Adare” in County Limerick’s Golden Vale for three full days. “We were herded like cattle and told to wait. The facilities, especially the food, were very poor”. After release, the Waksmans met their physician son, Byron, in Frankfurt-am-Main, where he was stationed in the U.S. Service after his having received his M.D. degree in 1943 from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1952, Selman Waksman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Nobel Committee cited his work on “the microbiological population of the soil, sulphur oxidation by bacteria, microorganisms and soil fertility; decomposition of plant and animal residues, nature and formation of humus; occurrence of bacteria in the sea and their role in marine processes; production and nature of antibiotic substances; and taxonomy, physiology and biochemistry of the actinomycetes”. After Stockholm he was decorated by the Japanese Government with the Second Order of Merit with the Grand Gordon of the Rising Sun and received in audience by the Emperor. He and his wife were invited to dinner at the home of H.I.H. Prince Takahito Mikasa, where plans for establishment of the Japan Waksman Foundation were formulated. Selman Waksman died on August 16, 1973. Deborah, his devoted wife of 57 years, and a most talented musician, died a year later. They are buried at Wood’s Hole, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Byron, their son, an only child, joined the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital before accepting chairs at Yale and in New York. He has returned to Harvard as a Visiting Scientist at the Center for Neurologic Diseases, where he is now the Doyen of Neuroimmunology and Mentor Extraordinaire,
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Sir Arnold Walmsley Stott, KBE, FRCP (1885-1958), by Walter Stoneman © National Portrait Gallery, London, and reproduced with their permission (No. x166999). Arnold Walmsley Stott was born at Oldham, Lancashire on July 12, 1885, and educated at Rugby School, Trinity College Cambridge, and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,,. He was trained in Cardiology by Sir Thomas Lewis. Stott was recalled to Barts as Chief Assistant in Pediatrics, and then successively appointed to the Honorary Staffs of the Royal Chest Hospital and the Westminster Hospital. Stott served in both World Wars: in the First as a Major and in the Second as a Major-General. During World War II he was Consultant Physician to his second BEF and after evacuation from Dunkirk Adviser in Medicine to the U.K. Emergency Medical Service. Stationed in Escrick Park near York with my father, they together inspected numerous war-time hospitals. From 1942 to late 1944 there were constant complaints from the RAF and the American Army Airforce that wounded bomber crew were not under the control of Airforce doctors. Air Vice-Marshall Geoffrey Keynes moved stored blood to bomber stations and constantly visited them. Stott and my father were often responsible for vetting those about to be placed in occupied Europe. Together with Elliott Cutler, Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard, and General Paul R. Hawley, Stott and my father planned the medical and surgical staffing for the consequences of the D-Day landings. The initial medical D-Day landing meeting, according to my father’s diary, was on Friday, March 5, 1943, at Thirlstaine Hall, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Stott used to regale me, my brother, and sister with apparently spontaneous topical rhymes seemingly based on the extraordinary activities of my brother’s god-father, Benjamin Rycroft and his friend Dicky Hunter,. One of Hairy Ryki’s rhythmical heroes was Ulsterman Harold Alexander, later Earl.
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