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Flexner (SIMON an American physician)

SIMON, an American physician and medical authority, born in Louisville, Ky., in 1863. He received a common school education in his native city and took his medical degree from the University of Louisville in 1889. He took post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins and at the Universities of Strassburg and Berlin. From 1891-1899 he was a professor in Johns Hopkins University and from 1899-1904 in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1903 he became director of the laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, with which he has been connected ever since.

He has published numerous treatises and monographs upon pathological and bacteriological subjects, and his work has been recognized abroad, where he has been made a member of many of the learned fraternities.