biography
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White, Paul (Dudley)
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| lived:
| (1886–1973)
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| biography:
| Cardiologist, born in Roxburg, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard, practised at the Massachusetts General Hospital, then worked in London with Sir Thomas Lewis (1913–14), returning to the USA fired with enthusiasm over the value of the electrocardiogram. His major textbook, Heart Disease (1931), secured his international reputation, and successful treatment of President Eisenhower did much to foster public awareness that heart disease need not be crippling. |
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