Teaching and Learning Medicine at the Turn of the Century, an account of George Dock's clinical teaching at the University of Michigan from 1899 through 1908." I have also published University of Michigan Surgeons, 1850-1970: Who They Were and What They Did" and Victor Vaughan: States man and Scientist." The former book describes the work of University of Michigan surgeons between 1850 and 1970. The latter book on Victor Vaughan contains a far more comprehensive account of his career than does this present book. Recently Joel D. Howell has edited Medical Lives the urine." Not Just Any Medical School Vaughan thought the most plausible explanation of the fate of liver glycogen is that it is converted into fat. Vaughan changed his opinion later, and in the meantime medical students, who time out of mind have been confidently taught erroneous theories, were probably not harmed by this one. Vaughan gave up his assistantship in the Chemical Laboratory in 1876 to enter medical school. After he received his doctor of medicine degree in 1878 he gradually became busy with the private practice of medicine, toxicology, bacteriology, immunology, medical administration, and many state and national medical affairs." He was away from Ann Arbor weeks, months, and years at a time, and although he remained responsible for physiological chemistry, the subject was poorly taught until the year after his retirement, when a department of physiological chemistry was established at Michigan.
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