1922

Death of Halsted; John Finney declines offer to succeed him, owing in part to his objections to the “full time” system (Finney, 229-31); Cushing presents Bigelow Medal to W. W. Keen. Banting brings back “good” insulin from Lilly Labs (Indiana) in July and begins treatment of Elizabeth Hughes in August (Bliss, 99ff., 115). AMA House of Delegates puts on record its opposition to all forms of “state medicine” (Stevens, 144). Howard Florey comes to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where Charles Sherrington takes him under his wing (Lax, 32ff.; MacFarland II, 156-58).