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The George Richards Minot Lecture

CECIL J. WATSON, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1957;99(3):323-333.

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I count it a special privilege and honor to have been invited to give the sixth George Richards Minot Lecture of this section. I have a strong personal feeling about this because over a period of quite a number of years George Minot stimulated and aided my research and was most generous with his advice and friendship on many occasions. Among many fine and interesting qualities, one of the most appealing that he had, in my opinion, was that of helping and encouraging young men along the tortuous path of medical research. He is famous for his notes to young investigators, often penny post cards in his own handwriting, telling them of his interest in one of their recent papers. He was considerate in his praise, just and meticulous in his criticism. His use of the English language was never dull, and it was often quaint and amusing. In the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Minneapolis

Footnotes
Received for publication June 25, 1956.

From the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School and Hospital. Aided by a contract with the Atomic Energy Commission.

Read before the Section on Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Chicago, June 13, 1956.

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