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Title: Buffalo medical journal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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DR. PARK. 1901Courtesy of Buffalo Express attack definite and decisive. While his earFy experience as ateacher of anatomy was of great value to him as an operator, hisresearch work along lines of pathology and bacteriology, histheoretical and practical grasp of the principles of antiseptic and, 516 OBITUARIES subsequently of aseptic surgery, at an early date in their de-velopment, were of equal value from the standpoint of technic,they characterized his teaching and authorship and preparedhim for future tasks of even greater importance. It was con-centration of energy rather than versatility in the ordinary sensethat made him a useful member of the Buffalo Society of Na-tural Sciences and of various other scientific organizations inChicago and Buffalo, that led the American Association for the
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DR. PARK, 1909 Advancement of Science to elect him to the presidency. Hisearly studies logically led to a conception of the necessity of aserious study of cancer and made him the prime mover in theestablishment of the New York State Institute for the Study ofMalignant Disease. The same logical extension of interests maybe seen in his early and persistent studies of radiant energies,although he never posed as a physicist or chemist or devoted him-self technically to Roentgenology. His paper published in thisissue not only illustrates this interest but exemplifies his graspof general principles and power to assemble facts, as well as OBITUARIES 517 his constant effort toward securing practical humanitarian resultsfrom what might appear to the superficial observer as merescientific abstractions. Like most other men who have achieved greatness, Dr. Parkwas a man, a gentleman, a good citizen and a good friend andnot merely a highly efficient mental machine. Hence, we findhim identified wit

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