Before operating on Dr. Marshak, a well known Jewish surgeon suffering with Burger’s disease, Professor Delbe declared that the malady was first studied in the United States among the Russian that it results from certain microbes in bread.
Another physician who was present at the operation declared that he is suffering from the same disease. He added that he was of pure French stock.
Burger’s (or Buerger’s) disease, was named after Dr. Leo Burger, a prominent physician of New York City. It is an inflammatory disease, of unknown origin, of all of the coats of the blood vessels, that is, the veins and arteries, Dr. A. M. Liebstein of New York City has made a special study of thrombo-angiitis obliterans, the medical term for Burger’s disease.
CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES TO HOLD JOINT THANKSGIVING SERVICE AT FREE SYNAGOGUE
A Community Service of Churches and Synagogues will be held at Carnegie Hall on the morning of Thanks-giving Day at half past ten, the Free Synagogue announces. Among the churches and synagogues which will take part in the service are the Community Church, Free Synagogue, Church of the Divine Paternity, Temple Israel Central Synagogue, Rodef Sholem, West Side Unitarian Church, Fort Washington Synagogue, West End Synagogue, Tremont Temple of the Bronx.
The speaker of the day will be Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, the former president of Amherst College, now of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Wisconsin. His subject will be “The Education of the Spirit in America.”
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