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Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee

Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Theodore M. Brown, PhD, Dept. of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail: theodore_brown@urmc.rochester.edu).

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ONE OF AMERICA’S LEADING physiologists and most respected scientific statesmen of the 20th century, Walter Bradford Cannon was born on October 19, 1871, in Prairie du Chien, Wis, the son of Colbert Hanchett Cannon, a railroad official, and Sarah Wilma Denio, a high school teacher. He attended primary and secondary school in Wisconsin and Minnesota before entering Harvard College in 1892. At Harvard, Cannon was attracted to the biological sciences and to psychology and philosophy.¹ He graduated summa cum laude in 1896 and entered Harvard Medical School.

In medical school, Cannon sought out opportunities for research. The professor of physiology, . . . [Full Text]