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Warren Taylor Vaughan
In Memoriam WARREN
TAYLOR
VAUGHAN
ARREN TAYLOR VAUGHAN died suddenly of coronary occlusion at his home in Richmond, Virginia, April 2, 1944. He was 51 years old. He died at the pea.k of a career which already had many brilliant facets. He was a scholar. His mind was keen, thirsty, and greedily retentive. His pen was prolific. His Practice of Allergy was his best known and most comprehensive book. Others were: I@uenza, An Epidemiologic Study, Allergy and Applied Immunology, Primer of Allergy, and Strange Malady. His contributions to current medical literature were numerous, original, and widely quoted. He was editor-in-chief of The Journal of Laboratoq and Clinical Jfe,dicine. He was, or had been, on the editorial boards of the JOURNAL OF ALLERGY, the Awkcan Jourml of Clinical Pathology, American Journal of RyphiLis, Amem’can Journu.1 of Digestive Diseases and Nutritiovt, and The Polk Clinica Chinka et Microscopica (Bologne, Italy). He contributed to T’he Encyclopedia Americana and to Oxford Medicine. He had received, with pride, an honorary MS. from his Alma Mater, The University of Michigan. His talks at local, county, state, He was a teacher and a clinician. and regional medical societies were gems of simplicity and comprehension. The Vaughan-Graham Clinic, which he founded, was a Mecca for the young allergist in search of perfect,ion in the practice of allergy. The continued progress of the Fellows whom he trained in his clinic testifies to the effectiveness of his example and his methods. He believed in, and was a tireless contributor to, the effectiveness of medical societies. He was an early member of the American Association for the Study of Allergy. As secretary, 1928 to 1938, and President in 1939 he added to the growth and dignity of allergy. He organized and conducted the first Allergy Clinic and Round Table which eventually became the Allergy Section of the Southern Medical He had been President of the Society for the Study of Association. Asthma and Allied Conditions, Vice-President of the Medical Society of Virginia, and Fellow and member of the council of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. He belonged also, to the American Scademy of Allergy, the American &Iedical Association, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, American Rheumatism Association, Society of Investigative Dermatology, and the Virginia academy of Science. He had honorary memberships in the Institute of Practice of Medicine, Barcelona, Spain, and in the Argentine Society for the Study of Allergy.
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He was a patriot. He entered the Army Medical Corps promptly upon completion of his internship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1917 as First Lieutenant. By the end of the war he had been promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and was serving as Chief of Medical Service, Camp Hospital 41, A. E. F. His analysis of the role of allergy as a cause of disability among soldiers and veterans of the last war had much to do with the present policy of not accepting select,ees with asthma for duty with the armed forces. From the beginning of World War II until his death, he had been active on The Aerobiology and on the Food Habits Committees of t,he National R’esearch Council. He sustained the impetus for accomplishment given to him in his youth by his illustrious father, the late Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan, and Chairman of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council. He transmitted this impetus t.o his four sons, all of whom have brilliant college and medical school records. He is survived by his widow, Emma Elizabeth Heath Vaughan; by four sons, Dr. Victor C. Vaughan III, Dr. Warren T. Vaughan, Jr., John Heath Vaughan, and David DuPuy Vaughan; and by two brothers, Dr. Henry F. Vaughan, Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Michigan and Dr. Herbert H. Vaughan, Professor of Romance Languages at the TJniversity of California. His death is mourned by his family, his associates, his patients, his friends, and the many young allergists whom he had befriended. OSCAR SWINEFORD, LESLIE C:AY ROBERT BENSON
JR.,
Chairman
TAYLOR
VAUGHAN
ARREN TAYLOR VAUGHAN died suddenly of coronary occlusion at his home in Richmond, Virginia, April 2, 1944. He was 51 years old. He died at the pea.k of a career which already had many brilliant facets. He was a scholar. His mind was keen, thirsty, and greedily retentive. His pen was prolific. His Practice of Allergy was his best known and most comprehensive book. Others were: I@uenza, An Epidemiologic Study, Allergy and Applied Immunology, Primer of Allergy, and Strange Malady. His contributions to current medical literature were numerous, original, and widely quoted. He was editor-in-chief of The Journal of Laboratoq and Clinical Jfe,dicine. He was, or had been, on the editorial boards of the JOURNAL OF ALLERGY, the Awkcan Jourml of Clinical Pathology, American Journal of RyphiLis, Amem’can Journu.1 of Digestive Diseases and Nutritiovt, and The Polk Clinica Chinka et Microscopica (Bologne, Italy). He contributed to T’he Encyclopedia Americana and to Oxford Medicine. He had received, with pride, an honorary MS. from his Alma Mater, The University of Michigan. His talks at local, county, state, He was a teacher and a clinician. and regional medical societies were gems of simplicity and comprehension. The Vaughan-Graham Clinic, which he founded, was a Mecca for the young allergist in search of perfect,ion in the practice of allergy. The continued progress of the Fellows whom he trained in his clinic testifies to the effectiveness of his example and his methods. He believed in, and was a tireless contributor to, the effectiveness of medical societies. He was an early member of the American Association for the Study of Allergy. As secretary, 1928 to 1938, and President in 1939 he added to the growth and dignity of allergy. He organized and conducted the first Allergy Clinic and Round Table which eventually became the Allergy Section of the Southern Medical He had been President of the Society for the Study of Association. Asthma and Allied Conditions, Vice-President of the Medical Society of Virginia, and Fellow and member of the council of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. He belonged also, to the American Scademy of Allergy, the American &Iedical Association, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, American Rheumatism Association, Society of Investigative Dermatology, and the Virginia academy of Science. He had honorary memberships in the Institute of Practice of Medicine, Barcelona, Spain, and in the Argentine Society for the Study of Allergy.
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310
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OF ALLERGY
He was a patriot. He entered the Army Medical Corps promptly upon completion of his internship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1917 as First Lieutenant. By the end of the war he had been promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and was serving as Chief of Medical Service, Camp Hospital 41, A. E. F. His analysis of the role of allergy as a cause of disability among soldiers and veterans of the last war had much to do with the present policy of not accepting select,ees with asthma for duty with the armed forces. From the beginning of World War II until his death, he had been active on The Aerobiology and on the Food Habits Committees of t,he National R’esearch Council. He sustained the impetus for accomplishment given to him in his youth by his illustrious father, the late Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan, and Chairman of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council. He transmitted this impetus t.o his four sons, all of whom have brilliant college and medical school records. He is survived by his widow, Emma Elizabeth Heath Vaughan; by four sons, Dr. Victor C. Vaughan III, Dr. Warren T. Vaughan, Jr., John Heath Vaughan, and David DuPuy Vaughan; and by two brothers, Dr. Henry F. Vaughan, Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Michigan and Dr. Herbert H. Vaughan, Professor of Romance Languages at the TJniversity of California. His death is mourned by his family, his associates, his patients, his friends, and the many young allergists whom he had befriended. OSCAR SWINEFORD, LESLIE C:AY ROBERT BENSON
JR.,
Chairman