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for auction a RARE! "American Cancer Society" Wendell G. Scott Hand Signed 3X5.5 Card.

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Dr. Scott, who had been chairman of the committee on radiology of the National Re search Council, last November won the national award of the American Cancer Society, its highest citation. Earlier, in calling attention to the possibility of danger in smoking cigarettes, he en dorsed a proposal, later adopted, to require a health warning on cigarette packages. He also estimated the number of deaths traceable to cigarettes at 100 a day. Dr. Scott, who was Professor of Clinical Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, served as president of the American Cancer Society in 1963.64. He also was a past president of the American Roentgen Ray Society and a consultant in the Bureau of Medicine and Surg ery of the Navy Department. He was a rear admiral in the Navy and in World War II was chief of the Rehabilitation Service at the Naval Hospital in Seattle. Dr. Scott had also served as chairman of the American Col lege of Radiology's committee on mammography and diseases of the breast and as a member of the National Cancer Ad visory Board of the United States Public Health Service. In 1949 he and Dr. Sherwood Moore of St. Louis described to the annual meeting of the American Medical Association an advanced technique adapt ing the magazine of an aerial camera to enable photograph ing infants' bloodstreams to as sist in diagnosing congenital heart disease.