Comments on: Letter 25 http://41loveletters.com/1934/09/03/letter-25/ R. H. Swinney to Ruth Erlanger, 1934 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:43:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: C. http://41loveletters.com/1934/09/03/letter-25/comment-page-1/#comment-47 C. Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:45:20 +0000 http://www.43loveletters.com/1934/09/03/letter-25/#comment-47 Have a look at this envelope when you get the stack back -- it's cancelled on the <em>back</em> at 10:30, and on the front, over the stamps, at 11pm... not clear whether it's more important to indicate when the stamps were cancelled or when Harold visited the PO. If the latter, then the time should be set back to 10:30. Have a look at this envelope when you get the stack back — it’s cancelled on the back at 10:30, and on the front, over the stamps, at 11pm… not clear whether it’s more important to indicate when the stamps were cancelled or when Harold visited the PO. If the latter, then the time should be set back to 10:30.

]]> By: C http://41loveletters.com/1934/09/03/letter-25/comment-page-1/#comment-7 C Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:44:12 +0000 http://www.43loveletters.com/1934/09/03/letter-25/#comment-7 If the Whipple we seek is a friend of Heinbecker's, then a likely candidate seems to be <a href="http://www.whipple.org/blaine/georgehoyt.html" title="GH Whipple's bio at whipple.org" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">George Hoyt Whipple</a>, winner of the <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1934/whipple-bio.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">1934 Nobel in Medicine</a> for <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1934/whipple-lecture.pdf#search=%22%22GH%20Whipple%22%22" title="GH Whipple's Nobel lecture" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">research into hemoglobin</a>. At this time, he would've been at the Department of Pathology at the University of Rochester, NY. <a href="http://www.whipplesdisease.net" title="Whipple's Disease Online, by Axel von Herbay" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Whipple's Disease</a> is named for him. However, it could also be <a href="http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/news/journal/journal-o/archives/jour_v18no3/faculty.html" title="Columbia Faculty Remembered" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Allen Oldfather Whipple</a> of Columbia U. <a href="http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/oral/transcripts/howorth.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Beckett Howorth's oral history transcript</a> mentions Washington U. students doing surgical internships under a Dr. Alan [sic] Whipple at Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Whipple performed the first pancreatoduodenectomy, commonly referred to as "<a href="http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/news/review/archives/medrev_v1n1_0006.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">The Whipple Procedure</a>." If the Whipple we seek is a friend of Heinbecker’s, then a likely candidate seems to be George Hoyt Whipple, winner of the 1934 Nobel in Medicine for research into hemoglobin. At this time, he would’ve been at the Department of Pathology at the University of Rochester, NY. Whipple’s Disease is named for him.

However, it could also be Allen Oldfather Whipple of Columbia U. Beckett Howorth’s oral history transcript mentions Washington U. students doing surgical internships under a Dr. Alan [sic] Whipple at Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Whipple performed the first pancreatoduodenectomy, commonly referred to as “The Whipple Procedure.”

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