The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-01
NOTED PATHOL0C|ST
STRICKEN BY Death
At Age OF 81 YEARS
Dr.. William Henry WEIGH Was
Dean Of Teachers at FAM
Gus University

Baltimore, May l.-tP,-Dr. William
H. WEIGH, dean Of American scientific
medicine, who died in his sleep late
Monday at the age Of "a. has left be-
hind a long record of discoveries and
advancement in medical research
particularly in pathology.
l DR.. WEIGH was one Of the five E:eln-
bers Of the original Johns Hopkins
Medical school faculty and one of the
foremost pathologists In the world
known equally we'll in the centers OF
science in Europe and America.
DR.. WEIGH was born Of a long line
Of New England physicians in Nor
folk, Conn.,, April 8, 1850, and at
tended Yale university, taking his de-
gree there in 1870. and ranking Sec
ond in a class of $50. For a time he
taught Latin and Greek, but aban-
doned the classics to attend the Col
lege OF Physicians and Surgeons in
New York, now a part Of Columbia
University, and gained q medical de-
gree in 1875.
The pursuit Of medical education
then led him to Europe, and the next
four years were spent in the univer-
stiles Of Breslau, 9trassburg, Leipzig,
Vienna and Berlin. On his return he
began to teach the new science OF
pathology. in which later he was to
become world figure. at the Belle
vue Hospital Medical college.
While he was professor of patho-
logical anatomy and general pathol-
ogy at Bellevue, plans were being made
for the establishment of the Johns
Hopkins Medical school, and DR..
WEIGH was brought to Baltimore to
take the chair Of pathology. being one
Of the five members Of the original
faculty Of that institution.
DR.. WEIGHS honors were climaxed
April 8. 1880, when he was honored
simultaneously in America, China and
several European countries with an
international celebration of his 80th
birthday. President Hoover was the
principal speaker in the celebration
in the United States. delivering an
address over nation wide radio
hookup In tribute to the scientist.
Primarily q teacher, DR.. WEIGH
spent many hours In the laboratory
with students and colleagues, furnish
ing advice which aided in many Inn
portant discoveries. One discovery
was bacillus which generates hydro
gen gas in wounds, producing usually
fatal results. He was successful In
isolating this and it was given his
name. From the laboratory which he
established came many discoveries
bearing on malaria, dysentery, ricketts,,
diabetes, diphtheria, intestinal poi
sons, influenza, fungus poisoning and
chloroform poisoning.
The department Of pathology firm
ly established and functioning
smoothly, DR.. WEIGH turned his at
tention to the foundation for the
School Of Hygiene and Public Health.
which now draws students from all
parts Of the world and equips them
to fight disease alike in crowded cities
or lonely swamps. In his spare
moments the savant was writing, and
four large volumes and more than
400 papers on pathological and BAG
THEOLOGICAL subjects have been col
lected BY his friends the scientist
never having had them arranged for
general publication.
In the world war DR.. sWelch served
IA the medical corps. emerging . !
colonel and later being made . brig
adler general IN the reserve corps.
He WAS decorated With the Dis.
Al - -.