Life, 1917-07-05 · page 35 of 40
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This page satirizes three prominent scientists at the Rockefeller Institute in New York—Flexner, Carrel, and Noguchi—attacking them as fraudulent showmen rather than legitimate researchers. The satire's points: - **Dr. Flexner** invented an anti-meningitis serum that allegedly kills patients as surely as the disease itself; eight children died after receiving it in Cincinnati. - **Dr. Carrel** claimed he could transplant new organs and limbs but failed when tested in a hospital, managing only to preserve dead baby skin in ice. - **Noguchi** claims to have discovered the hydrophobia microbe, though the satire notes it was already identified multiple times by others. The author compares the Institute's self-promotion to circus theatrics (Barnum and Bailey), accusing Rockefeller of funding publicity stunts rather than genuine science. The piece mocks their European tours and grand announcements as marketing for "charlatan" medicine.
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Flexner, Carrel and Noguchi! These three personages are the stars of the troup of the Rockefeller Institute in New York. This too celebrated establishment, which treats the things of science like the pickled pigs of Chicago, to an accompani- ment of furious beatings of the bass drum, is manifestly ambitious to replace the Barnum and Bailey Circus in its exhi- bitions designed to astonish the populace and to gather in the dollars. To this end, one member of the phe- nomenal trio goes to Europe periodically, preceded by much noise of his coming. IFFANY & 6) All honor to him (?) ° Dr. Simon Flexner, vivisector in chief of the Institute, is the inventor of the anti-meningitic serum which, according to some of the American doctors, kills the patient more surely than the disease itself. Eight children have recently died in a JEWELRY, SILVERWARE hospital in Cincinnati, paralyzed imme- diately after the injection of this serum. AND STATIONERY We will say no more at present about these “unhappy accidents,” as M. Flex- SUPERIOR IN EVERY ner called them, when defending his serum. RESPECT Dr. Carrel is the phenomenal charlata who has stunned the universe in pro- claiming that he can put new organs and limbs in the place of old ones, for those who wish them. Put to the proof in the Broca hospital, he stammered_pitiably that he could do nothing of the sort; and it seemed as though his pretended miracles were reduced to preserving in ice the skin of a baby born dead. Noguchi, the last comer, arrives pre- ceded by a great clatter, carrying the mic FIFTH AVENUE & 37 STREET crobe of hydrophobia in his valise. Alas, NEw YORK Tue TirFany Biue Book GIVES PARTICULARS With gasoline selling around 30c a gallon, it should interest you to know that tires that are insufficiently inflated need 25 Yo for Pasteur! Does Noguchi forget that more gasoline to pull them along 23I- this subtle microbe has already been dis- the ‘send than tees that are ine covered at least a dozen times? Turn Hi , si by turn, Bouchard, Gibier, Fol, Babes, lated to the right ete Wiha B - Bruschettini, Frederic Levy, Sormani, 2 Negri—to cite only the principal ones— Schrader Universal 32 De dled tee eel e But Noguchi, coming out of the Rocke- Tire PressureGauge Si filer veri etka treetine wetqos, a 'can. beep ‘our ties inflated to the only—musie, en avont! rie Tight eae This is the trinity of charlatans who § Ce BILTMORE PUES A. oad: <Ab are presented to the old world as the A5rdsaid 44by Sead: Madison Ave: ' i | glowing torches of progress. SF Sian A OEICS SON ine. 3 Alas, M. Rockefeller, a trust can not 9 The Cascades 783 Atlantic Avenue be formed of science! 19th Floor—Always Cool Brooklyn, N.Y. 8h —From The Open Door. a Moa unique dining room in New York jew decorations and lighting effects — ——— It Was Some Storm Dancing BEST KOE DIS Te OR, EOS We had the hardest storm Friday that Superson Cameron Sisters EY, and Toe (stamps) for six prints 8x 10 Enlargem ven bas brea mee Ti blew dows trees I drinks || ROANOKE PHOTO FINISHING CO. (Formerly Reanoke Cycle Ce.) that were:never blown down before: york || 3? Bett Ave., Roanoke, —Greencastle Banner. comicbooks.com