Paul Hawley was born on January 21, 1891, the son and grandson of doctors, and he practised with his father in the small Indiana town where he was born, and thus learned the hard way the duties of a country family doctor. He had graduated with the MD degree of the University of Cincinnati in 1914, a

Colonel David C Wherry was a professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland. He was born on 18 December 1926, in Pawnee City, Nebraska, the son of Kenneth Spicer Wherry and Marjorie Wherry née Colwell. His father was an important politica

Born in Paris on 23 February 1883, the son of Pierre Bazy (1853-1934), a leading urologist who was a member of the Académie de Médecine from 1913 and the Académie des Sciences from 1921, Louis Bazy studied at the Faculté de Médecine of Paris, graduated in 1910, and was promoted to consultant rank in