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THE 1970s: MEDICINE AND HEALTH: DEATHS

Dr. Lucie Adelsberger, 75, medical researcher and immunologist who discovered a link between red blood cell changes as an incipient cancer warning; imprisoned in Auschwitz by the Nazis, she reported her ordeal in her best-seller A Report of the Facts, 2 November 1971.

Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez, 93, a Mayo Clinic specialist (1926-1951) who became a widely syndicated writer on health subjects after his retirement, 18 June 1978.

Dr. Virginia Apgar, 65, developer of the Apgar Score, a test to determine quickly the health of a newborn infant, 7 August 1974.

Dr. Walter Sydney Atkinson, 86, prominent Canadian-born ophthalmologist and eye surgeon who presided over various professional organizations, 6 January 1978.

Dr. Pearce Bailey, 73, neurologist, author, and the first director of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health, 23 June 1976.

Dr. Henry K. Beecher, 72, helped make anesthesiology a specialized field of medicine, 25 July 1976.

Dr. Charles Best, 79, physician and codiscoverer of insulin treatment for diabetes, 31 March 1978.

Dr. Grete L. Bibring, 78, a protégé and later associate of Sigmund Freud who in the 1930s helped Freud found the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute, 10 August 1977.

Dr. Arthur Hendley Blakemore, 73, surgeon and medical teacher, known for his pioneering work in vascular surgery, 8 October 1970.

Dr. William Brady, 91, writer of a syndicated medical column for fifty-eight years, 25 February 1972.

Paul R. Brukholder, 69, the first man to isolate azeserine, a drug used to combat leukemia, 11 August 1972.

Dr. Isadore E. Buff, 65, leader in the battle to obtain black-lung benefits for coal miners, 14 March 1974.

Dr. Ezra P. Casman, 66, bacteriologist who received the U.S. distinguished service award for his discovery of the principal organisms responsible for food poisoning, 16 October 1970.

Richard Chamberlain, 60, pioneer in nuclear medicine and in the use of radioactive substances for therapy and diagnosis, 5 December 1975.

William D. Coolidge, 101, inventor of the X-ray tube, 3 February 1975.

Dr. George C. Cotzias, 58, developer of L-Dopa therapy for Parkinson's disease, 13 June 1977.

Dr. Lyman C. Craig, 68, revolutionizer of techniques for purifying drugs, penicillins, proteins, and hormones, 7 July 1974.

Dr. Leo Davidoff, 73, a founder of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine; he helped establish the department of neurosurgery and served as its chairman until 1966, 23 December 1975.

Theodosius Dobzhansky, 75, geneticist, 19 December 1975.

Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt, 81, who performed the first successful surgical separation of Siamese twins in 1955; he is credited with the development of the vagotomy operation for duodenal ulcers, 16 July 1975.

Dr. Rolla E. Dyer, 84, director of the National Institutes of Health (1942-1950), expert on diseases caused by rickettsia, awarded 1948 Albert Lasker Award, 2 June 1971.

Dr. Herbert McLean Evans, 88, discoverer of vitamin E in 1922, head of the Institute of Experimental Biology at Berkeley, 6 March 1971.

Dr. Howard D. Fabing, 62, former president of the American Academy of Neurology and of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and a pioneer in the research of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD, 29 July 1970.

Dr. Sidney Farber, 69, pioneer in children's cancer research and 1966 winner of the Albert Lasker Award for clinical research, 30 March 1973.

Dr. Morris Fishbein, 87, former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (1924-1949) and controversial figure whose outspoken opinions caused the AMA to force him into retirement, 27 September 1976.

Aime J. Forand, 76, Medicare advocate who served twenty-two years in the House of Representatives (D—Rhode Island), 18 January 1972.

Dr. Herbert G. Fowler, 58, genetic psychiatrist who studied the inheritance patterns of mental illness in American Indians, 2 January 1977.

Rose N. Franzblau, 77, psychologist, advice columnist; her syndicated column, "Human Relations," appeared in newspapers across the country daily from 1951 to 1976, 2 September 1979.

Dr. Frank Fremont-Smith, 78, mental-health leader, 27 February 1974.

Dr. Maurice Fremont-Smith, 88, popularizer of the Pap smear test for cervical cancer, 4 May 1979.

Ralph Waldo Gerard, 73, who contributed to a general understanding of the brain and nervous system; he tied schizophrenia to body chemistry, 17 February 1974.

Dr. John H. Gibbon, Jr., 69, who performed the first successful open-heart operation, 5 February 1973.

Dr. Haim Ginott, 51, child psychologist who wrote the best-seller Between Parent and Child, 4 November 1973.

Dr. Harry Goldblatt, 86, pioneer blood researcher who in 1934 performed a classic experiment that established that alteration in the blood flow to the kidneys plays an important role in high blood pressure, 6 January 1977.

Dr. Alan F. Guttmaker, 75, pioneer in the birth-control movement, 18 March 1974.

Heinz Hartmann, 75, Vienna-born psychoanalyst and author (Psychoanalysis and Moral Values), 17 May 1970.

Dr. Victor G. Heiser, 99, author (American Doctor's Odyssey) and pioneer in mass treatment of lepers, 27 February 1972.

Joseph Hoffman, 65, physicist who helped develop the atom bomb during the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico (1944-1946) and director of cancer research at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, 8 December 1974.

Dr. David M. Hume, 55, who helped develop the technique of human organ transplants; he died in a plane crash in California, 19 May 1973.

Blanche Ittleson, 99, mental-health pioneer, 16 August 1975.

Dr. Andrew Ivy, 84, cancer researcher who at one time promoted the anticancer drug krebiozen; indicted in 1965 on federal charges in connection with krebiozen, he was later acquitted, 7 February 1978.

Dr. Edith B. Jackson, 82, the originator of rooming-in care for newborn infants and their mothers and a leader in childcare and preventive psychiatry, 5 June 1977.

Dr. Louis N. Katz, 75, a pioneer in arteriosclerosis research and a past president of the American Heart Association, 2 April 1973.

Dr. Edward C. Kendall, 86, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology for work with cortisone, 4 May 1972.

Dr. John H. Knowles, 52, president of the Rockefeller Foundation since 1972 and director of Massachusetts General Hospital (1962-1971), becoming controversial as an outspoken critic of high medical fees and unnecessary surgery, 6 March 1979.

Dr. Lawrence Kolb, 91, pioneer in medical treatment of narcotics addicts; he helped create the National Institute of Mental Health, 17 November 1972.

Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, 81, writer on the relation of science to ethics and the humanities; he was credited with introducing diviny ether into the practice of anesthesiology in 1930, 11 January 1978.

Dr. David M. Levy, 84, child psychiatrist who coined the term sibling rivalry and introduced the diagnostic Rorschach test for personality traits to the United States after a trip to Switzerland in 1926, 1 March 1977.

Eli Lilly, 91, former president and chairman of Eli Lilly and Company, the drug company founded by his grandfather, in 1937 he founded Lilly Endowment Incorporated, a philanthropic fund which donated over $250 million to charity, 24 January 1977.

Dr. Erich Lindeman, 74, psychiatrist and social scientist who applied sociology to psychiatric problems; he was named director of the country's first community health center (1948), 16 November 1974.

Dr. Clarence Cook Little, 83, leading geneticist and cancer researcher who founded (1929) and directed (until 1956) the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory for cancer research, 22 December 1971.

Dr. Charles Le Roy Lowman, 97, a leading orthopedic surgeon who founded the Orthopaedic Hospital in Los Angeles (1909); he was awarded a 1974 Medal of Freedom for his work with handicapped children in Mexico and the United States, 17 April 1977.

Dr. David Marine, 96, pathologist who discovered the iodine treatment for goiter and other thyroid disorders, 26 November 1979.

Abby Rockefeller Mauze, 72, a leading philanthropist and board member of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and one of its chief benefactors, 27 May 1976.

Dr. Edward McCormick, 83, president of the American Medical Association (1953-1954) who appealed to the association to draw up a schedule of fees for physicians, 7 January 1975.

Hiram Houston Merrit, 78, pioneer neurologist and codeveloper of the antiepilepsy drug dilantin, 9 January 1979.

Dr. Karl Meyer, 89, noted veterinarian and viral scientist credited with finding a remedy when a deadly form of food poisoning was crippling the canning industry, 27 April 1974.

Dr. Harry Willis Miller, 97, surgeon, nutritionist, and medical missionary popularly known as the China doctor; he developed the process of extracting milk from soybeans and founded twenty Seventh Day Adventist church hospitals throughout the Far East, 1 January 1977.

Dr. Jacob Haskell Milstone, 64, professor at Yale University School of Medicine who was credited with major discoveries in the field of blood coagulation, 27 January 1977.

Gardner Murphy, 83, psychologist, pioneer scientist in the field of parapsychology and director of research at the Menninger Foundation (1952-1968), 19 March 1979.

Dr. Dwight Murray, 86, former president of the AMA (1956) and critic of socialized medicine, 7 October 1974.

Dr. Carl Muschenheim, 72, lung specialist who helped develop a drug treatment for tuberculosis that reduced the U.S. death rate from the disease by almost 70 percent, 27 April 1977.

Dr. Dorothy Klenke Nash, 77, a Pittsburgh neurosurgeon who reportedly was the only woman neurosurgeon in the United States from 1928 to 1960, 5 March 1976.

Dr. William D. ("Shorty") Paul, 77, inventor of buffered aspirin, 19 December 1977.

Dr. Lyndon Peer, 78, pioneer plastic surgeon who helped found the nation's first medical society devoted to the field; he developed a method of ear reconstruction based on the body's natural healing process, 8 October 1977.

Dr. Frederick S. Perls, 76, founder of the Gestalt school of psychotherapy, 14 March 1970.

Jerry Pettis, 58, member of the House of Representatives, (R-California) since 1966; he developed a successful system of tapes of medical findings for doctors to use in their cars (1953), 14 February 1975.

Dr. Robert Allan Phillips, 70, U.S. Navy physician and public-health leader who led the fight against cholera, 20 September 1976.

Dr. Robert F. Pitts, 68, physiologist whose research in kidney function and disease led to medical therapies, including the use of diuretic drugs, 6 June 1977.

Dr. Clilan B. Powell, 83, former editor and publisher (1935-1971) of the New York Amsterdam News; he was the first black appointed to the New York State Athletic Commission and the first black physician to specialize in X rays, 22 September 1977.

Dr. Marion Hill Preminger, 58, film actress who became a disciple of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, served in the Congo (1950-1965), and lectured to raise funds for hospitals and other philanthropies, 15 April 1972.

Dr. Armand J. Quick, 83, developer in 1932 of the prothrombin time test, also known as the Quick test, which was used in regulating the dosage of blood-thinning drugs and in diagnosing liver diseases, 26 January 1978.

Dr. Isador S. Ravdin, 77, one of the leading surgeons and cancer specialists in the United States and a member of the team that treated President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 27 August 1972.

Dr. Dickinson W. Richards, 77, Columbia University physician who shared the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956 for heart research, 23 February 1973.

Dr. Sandor Rodo, 82, Hungarian-born physician who became one of Freud's first disciples and leader of the psychoanalytic movement; he fled Germany for the United States during the Nazi era and helped establish the first school of psychoanalysis at Columbia University, 14 May 1972.

Dr. May E. Romm, 86, psychiatrist who served as technical adviser for several motion pictures and former president of the Los Angeles and Southern California Psychoanalytic societies, 15 October 1977.

Theodor Rosebury, 72, bacteriologist, specialist in venereal disease, and writer whose most popular book was Microbes and Morals, 25 November 1976.

Dr. Peyton Rous, 90, winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for medicine, 16 February 1970.

Dr. John Scudder, 76, pioneer of blood storage who helped set up blood banks in the United States and abroad; in 1959 he advocated the controversial "race to race" policy in blood transfusions which he said might prevent the creation of blood disease, 6 December 1976.

Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, 46, osteopath who was freed in the second trial for his first wife's murder; the case was the inspiration for the television show The Fugitive, 6 April 1970.

Dr. Fred L. Soper, 83, director emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization; his work in the control of yellow fever, malaria, and typhus spanned three continents and nearly four decades, 9 February 1977.

Dr. Mai Stevens, 79, orthopedic surgeon and football coach at Yale, 6 December 1979.

Dr. Alfred H. Sturtevant, 78, geneticist, 5 April 1970.

Kanematsu Sugiura, 89, Japanese-born research scientist and pioneer in the development of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer, 21 October 1979.

Dr. Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., 58, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology for research on hormones, 9 March 1974.

Mary Switzer, 71, administrator of the Social and Rehabilitation Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1967-1970) she directed sweeping changes in programs for the disabled, 16 October 1971.

Edward L. Tatum, 65, cowinner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for medicine for his pioneering genetics studies with microorganisms, 5 November 1975.

Dr. Max Theiler, 73, winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for medicine and the virologist who developed the vaccine for yellow fever, 11 August 1972.

Dr. Georg von Bekesy, 73, winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize for medicine for human ear research, 13 June 1972.

Dr. Selman A. Waksman, 85, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize for medicine, principal discoverer of streptomycin, and coiner of the word antibiotic, 16 August 1973.

Dr. Alexander S. Weiner, 70, codiscoverer of the Rh blood factor, 6 November 1976.

Dr. George Hoyt Whipple, 97, pathologist and cowinner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for medicine for his discovery that pernicious anemia could be controlled with a liver diet, 1 February 1976.

Dr. Paul Dudley White, 87, heart specialist and international authority on heart disease who advocated exercise as prevention and therapy; he treated President Eisenhower after his first heart attack, 31 October 1973.

Dr. Edward Wiss, 81, a student and early associate of Freud who founded the Italian Psychoanalytic Society in 1931, 15 December 1970.

Dr. William Barry Wood, Jr., 60, Harvard athlete who achieved prominence in the medical world as a bacteriologist, physician, researcher, and teacher; he was vice-president of (1955), 9 March 1971.