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"What distinguished Murray Bass from many of his contemporaries in the past as well as in the present was the harmonious allotment of his professional interests and en dowments. At ward rounds and in the dis pensary he was stimulating, at times brilliant but always an instructive, inspiring teacher. His gift of keen observation made him an un- equaled diagnostician; his broad clinical ex perience a wise therapist.
"If one surveys the many scientific contri butions of Murray Bass covering a period of fifty years one is impressed by the wide range of his interests. Orthostatic albuminuria at tracted his attention in his first publications, probably as a result of his contact in Vienna with Jehle of the Childrens' Clinic. But sub sequently one can see how his scientific curi osity was stimulated by the problems arising from his own clinical experience. Observa tions of serious acute illness attracted his at tention to the dangerous idiosyncrasies of young children to metals and it was because of his penetrating analyses of cases of lead poisoning in nursing infants that the sale of nipple protectors containing this metal was prohibited in the State of New York. The clinical aspects of the Rh factor published jointly with Dr. Peter Vogel, vitamin A de ficiency in infants, periorbital edema as the initial sign of infectious mononucleosis, are relevant examples from the later period of his scientific activity.
"Murray Bass was a great physician, one of the greatest I have ever met. His was a God given gift of a rare personality which com bined qualities not often found together ; love, dedication to duty and intellectual curi osity. He utilized these qualities to the fullest and he was rewarded by the love and grati tude of thousands to whom he had been a comfort in times of anxiety with his compe tence and wisdom."—PAUL KLEMPERER, M.D., from J. Mt. Sinai Hosp. 21: 371, Sept.- Oct. 1962.
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