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18. Simon Flexner and James Flower Flewler, William Hensy Welch and the
Heroic Aae af Arerican Medicine, Viking Press, 1941, pp. 309 ff.
This account reveals tkt when Dr. Welch sought to persuade b.
Gates to finznce the capitalization of full-time services of clinicians
for the Iiopkins, Gates pleaded fatigue, and said he could not
go forward with the plan, in uhich he was much interested. Abraham
Flexner was then "'borrouedUm f rfrom the Ca~eg i e Foundation for Advancement
of Teaching, and carried the negotietions to a successful eonclusion
in 1913. This account is more detailed thzn that given by
Abraham Flexner in his Autobiography. (See pp. 109 f f -3
19. Raynand B. Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, pp.
93-103. Hr, Fosdick precedes his account of the intrmursl differences
here with a description of Flexner 2s having "tht keen,
razorlike mind that characterized that remarkable family. The boldness
of his thinking, and the tenacity of his opinions frequently
crested antagonism, but he had en intellectual energy and drive thet
were to have profound consequences on eontemporsry medicine." (pp.
93-94,)
Then Fosdick quotes Dr. Al~n Gregg, later Director of Medical Educatfon
st the Rockefeller Foundetion, as praising that influence in
ccntemporary and future mzdicine.