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Volume 333:464-465 August 17, 1995 Number 7
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A Miracle and a Privilege: Recounting a half century of scientific advance

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By Francis D. Moore. 432 pp. Washington, D.C., Joseph Henry Press, 1995. $29.95. ISBN 0-309-05188-6.

Francis D. Moore, better known to one and all as Franny Moore, was a giant in the academic surgical world for a generation of surgeons, not only because of his own major contributions to our understanding and management of the metabolic changes associated with injury, but also because of the breadth of his interest in all areas of surgical endeavor. This latter trait is best illustrated by his vision and support of the pioneer efforts in transplantation at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital of David Hume and then Joe Murray, as well as by his recruitment of Dwight Harken to . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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