Aldred Scott Warthin 1866–1931

Simpson, Walter M.

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“…According to Simpson, Warthin continued to publish at a high level of productivity for the remainder of his life and still had many papers ''in the works'' when he died. 2…”

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“…Almost 40 years after leaving Bloomington, he received an honorary Legum Doctor degree from IU in 1928. [1][2][3][4][5] Warthin received a Master's degree (AM) in 1890, a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1891, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1893 from the UofM. While in medical school, he supported himself by teaching music and working as a church organist.…”

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“…He was promoted to assistant professor in 1899, junior professor in 1902, and professor in 1903, at which time he was also appointed director of the Pathological Laboratory. 2,3 Warthin's rapid promotion was aided by some unusual local circumstances. His immediate predecessor as professor of pathology was George Dock who, as professor of internal medicine, did not really want this additional position but, recognizing its importance, agreed to accept it.…”

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“…It also drove him to implement a regular clinical-pathologic conference rounds. 2 During the final few months of his life, Warthin provided his thoughts on teaching: Pathology is not to my mind a separate subject to be taught academically, but one underlying and intimately connected with all the clinical subjects of the curriculum. The teaching pathologist should also be a clinical pathologist.…”

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“…During his first year as pathologist he prepared some 30 000 teaching sections and spent the hours from one to five each afternoon during the entire year demonstrating these sections to students.'' 2 Warthin noted: ''Most of the pathologic material used in this course I had obtained from Vienna; but from the very first a special effort was made toward utilizing the local material for purposes of practical illustration.'' 1(p745) William Osler visited Warthin's museum it its early days and was impressed, even though it was small, saying, ''A little field well-tilled!…”

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Aldred Scott Warthin: Ann Arbor's Erudite, Outspoken, and Academically Transformative Early 20th Century Pathologist

Wright

2021

Archives of Pathology &Amp; Laboratory Medicine

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Context.— Aldred Scott Warthin, MD, PhD, was professor of pathology and director of the pathological laboratory at the University of Michigan during the first third of the 20th century. Objective.— To explore the life and accomplishments of Dr. Warthin and his impact on academic anatomic and clinical pathology. Design.— Available primary and secondary historic sources were reviewed. Results.— After studying music, biology, and botany, Warthin attended medical school at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1891; he remained in Ann Arbor for 40 years, almost single-handedly transforming a rundown department into a top academic department. He was a dedicated teacher who produced 2 important pathology textbooks. His research interests were diverse. In 1913, he published 1 of the first papers unambiguously documenting heritability of cancers; subsequent research on 1 of his cancer families resulted in the description of Lynch Syndrome. He published extensively in the fields of surgical pathology and experimental pathology. He was a recognized expert on syphilis and pathology of aging. Conclusions.— Warthin's name is eponymously associated with Warthin-Finkeldey giant cells in measles, Warthin's tumor of the parotid, and Warthin-Starry stain for the diagnosis of syphilis as well as Warthin's sign in the clinical diagnosis of pericarditis.

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“…According to Simpson, Warthin continued to publish at a high level of productivity for the remainder of his life and still had many papers ''in the works'' when he died. 2…”

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Hereditary colon cancer syndromes: polyposis and nonpolyposis (Lynch syndromes I & II) variants

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Cancer Treatment and Research

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Aldred Scott Warthin’s Family ‘G’: The American Plot Against Cancer and Heredity (1895–1940)

Pieters

2017

History of Human Genetics

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According to many, the genetic technology used in cancer is a promising test case of twenty-first century 'genomic medicine'. However, it is important to realize that accounting for the genetic or hereditary factors in cancer medicine is not new. Since at least the eighteenth century, medical doctors and patients have tried to establish links between heredity and cancer. Following the excitement over the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's theory of hereditary transmission (1900), there was renewed interest in the question of a linkage between heredity and cancer. Researchers began to pay attention to the statistical use of family studies as a means to calculate Mendelian ratios of disease inheritance. In 1913, the Michigan University pathologist Aldred Scott Warthin (1866Warthin ( -1931 published his first study of a pedigree with a so-called inherited susceptibility for cancer. Family G's susceptibility was associated with the risk of creating an 'inferior stock'. Given the number of studies on heredity and disease and the vogue for eugenics at the beginning of the twentieth century, one would have expected strong support for Warthin's study. Family G (one of the longest systematically studied cancer genealogies in the world and currently associated with Lynch syndrome) might have been accepted (if not for purely scientific reasons) as part of the eugenics gospel as an exemplary case of a degenerative stock. After all, Warthin was a rising star within the American medical establishment and had become part of John Kellogg's eugenic priesthood in Michigan. Ultimately, none of these likely Earlier versions of this paper were presented under the same title at the Third International

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Aldred Scott Warthin 1866–1931

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Aldred Scott Warthin: Ann Arbor's Erudite, Outspoken, and Academically Transformative Early 20th Century Pathologist

Aldred Scott Warthin: Ann Arbor's Erudite, Outspoken, and Academically Transformative Early 20th Century Pathologist

Hereditary colon cancer syndromes: polyposis and nonpolyposis (Lynch syndromes I & II) variants

Aldred Scott Warthin’s Family ‘G’: The American Plot Against Cancer and Heredity (1895–1940)

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