Dr. Arthur Henry Morse died on January 26, 1950 at the age of 69. He is survived by his wife and two sons. After graduation from Tufts College in 1902 and the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1906, he served as resident in pathology at the Rhode Island General Hospital. Subsequently, in 1910, he became resident and instructor in obstetrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and in 1912 resident surgeon a...

The Clinica Para Madres (Mother?s Clinic) opened in Tucson, Arizona, in December of 1934 as the first birth control [3] clinic in Arizona. After moving to Tucson, birth control [3] activist Margaret Sanger, along with a group of local philanthropic women, founded the clinic to provide Arizona women with contraception [4]. During the early 1900s in the US, contraception [4] was illegal under the...

The Clinica Para Madres (Mother?s Clinic) opened in Tucson, Arizona, in December of 1934 as the first birth control [3] clinic in Arizona. After moving to Tucson, birth control [3] activist Margaret Sanger, along with a group of local philanthropic women, founded the clinic to provide Arizona women with contraception [4]. During the early 1900s in the US, contraception [4] was illegal under the...

The Clinica Para Madres (Mother?s Clinic) opened in Tucson, Arizona, in December of 1934 as the first birth control [3] clinic in Arizona. After moving to Tucson, birth control [3] activist Margaret Sanger, along with a group of local philanthropic women, founded the clinic to provide Arizona women with contraception [4]. During the early 1900s in the US, contraception [4] was illegal under the...

Mortality data, abstracted from the World Health Organization (WHO) database, are available for various countries. We used breast cancer mortality data from Japan, the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), Italy and France for the period 1950–2008. For the USA and the UK, data were available for 1950–2005 and 1950–2007, respectively. For Italy, data were available for 1951–20...

Congenital toxoplasmosis has been recognized with increasing frequency since it was first described by Wolf, Cowen, and Paige in 1939, and has now been reported from many parts of the world. The first description of a case in this country was given by Jacoby and Sagorin in 1948. Since then a number of others have been reported (Farquhar and Turner, 1949; Wilson and Smith, 1949; Ridley, 1949; Nu...

The uniformity with which high streptococcal (group A) antihyaluronidase titer occurs in rheumatic fever (Quinn, 1950; Harris and Harris, 1949a, 1949b; Harris et al., 1949; Stoppelman, 1951; Friou and Wenner, 1947; and Sallman et al., 1950; 1951) and its reported occurrence in cases of rheumatoid arthritis (Quinn, 1950; Faber, 1953a, 1953b), in glomerulonephritis (Faber, 1953a, 1953b) and scarl...