Dr. Michael DeBakey, one of the great pioneers of cardiovascular surgery, and an early and fervent supporter of the NLM, died in Houston on Friday, July 11th of natural causes. He was 99.
In the patent medicine advertisement from Wemple & Company, New York, circa 1800s, a boy calmly receives a spoonful of Scott & Bowne’s Palatable Castor Oil from his smiling mother. His little sister raises her arms (in excitement?), abandons her toys and awaits her turn. The punctuation-free copy reads, “See how these children take and…
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