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In Osler’s Day it was Syphilis

Abstract: As is so often the case, the research with which I have been identified had an odd and tortuous beginning. Chance has played an overwhelming role. The medical school to which I went, then known as the Long Island College for Medicine, was a perfect illustration of a trade school rather than a component of a university. Since I had early conceived the thought of becoming a pediatrician, it was my good fortune, in the course of a variety of contrived roles, to meet up with two residents in pediatrics who were university-minded and a cut above their peers. One was Dr. Harold Eisenberg and the other was Dr. Martin Glynn. They kept an eye on my progress and I consulted with them toward the end of what was then the standard two-year internship. Dr. Glynn both guided and paved my way toward a pediatric residency in the prestigious New York Hospital. The time this was to begin was a year past the completion of my internship, and of this year, six months were already planned to be devoted to a term in communicable diseases and tuberculosis at the then-flourishing Kingston Avenue Hospital for Communicable Diseases. This left six unsettled months before the much-desired residency at the New York Hospital was to begin. At this juncture, Dr. Eisenberg offered a suggestion. In his day pediatric residents of the Long Island College Hospital got their communicable disease experience in a hospital with a famous name (the Charles V. Chapin Hospital) in a place that was little known to most of us (Providence, Rhode Island).