RARE “Serum For Meningitis" Simon Flexner Hand Signed TLS Dated 1914 Mounted For Sale

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RARE “Serum For Meningitis" Simon Flexner Hand Signed TLS Dated 1914 Mounted:
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Simon Flexner, M.D.ForMemRS(March 25, 1863 inLouisville, Kentucky– May 2, 1946) was aphysician,scientist, administrator, andprofessorof experimentalpathologyat theUniversity of Pennsylvania(1899–1903). He served as the first director of theRockefeller Institute for Medical Research(1901–1935) (later developed as Rockefeller University) and atrusteeof theRockefeller Foundation. He was also a friend and adviser toJohn D. Rockefeller Jr.. Among Flexner's most important achievements are studies intopoliomyelitisand the development of serum treatment formeningitis. Among his lab assistants wereHideyo NoguchiandCornelius Rhoads, later directors ofMemorial Hospitaland theSloan-Kettering Institute, respectively. The bacteria speciesShigella flexneriwas named in recognition of Flexner. In addition, Flexner was the first to describeFlexner-Wintersteiner rosettes, a characteristic finding inretinoblastoma, a type of cancer. Simon was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Moritz (Morris) Flexner, an immigrant fromNeumark,Bohemia, via several years inStrasbourg,France; and Esther fromRoden,Germany. He was the fourth son of seven in a large family of nine children:Jacob Flexner, Henry, and Isadore; then Simon, followed byBernard Flexner,Abraham Flexner, and Washington. The two sisters Mary and Gertrude were the youngest. Jacob became a pharmacist and physician; Bernard became aZionistleader, and Abraham became an educator, eventually influencing the direction of medical education in the United States.Simon first gained a degree from theLouisville College of Pharmacyand worked with his brother Jacob for eight years. He returned to college, getting his medical degree from Louisville Medical College in 1889. He did postgraduate work in pathology atJohns Hopkins UniversityMedical School, and started teaching there. By 1899, he was a professor of pathology at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. Flexner was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Societyin 1901. He taught at Penn until 1903, but was called to theRockefeller Institute for Medical Research(later Rockefeller University), where he started serving as its first director in 1901. He managed the research institute until 1935. Through this affiliation and related work, he came to know thephilanthropistJohn D. Rockefeller, who supported research and basic medical care. In December 1907 Flexner declared in a reading of his paper on "Tendencies in Pathology" in theUniversity of Chicagothat it would be possible in the then-future for diseased human organssubstitution for healthy ones by surgery—including arteries, stomach,kidneysandheart. These previsions became reality in the second half of the 20th century. In 1911, Flexner was awarded theCameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh.

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