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Letter to Harvey Cushing, June 15, 1925
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CA OSLER P417-2-57-187
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(1865-1943)
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Dr. Leon Asher was born on April 13, 1865, in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.
He was a Swiss physiologist, educator, and editor. He was a medicine professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and the director of its Institute of Physiology (since 1914). Dr. Asher edited the German journal Ergebnisse der Physiologie. He wrote numerous articles for various medical journals and lectured at international medical conferences.
He was married to Else Laquer (1873-1958). He died in 1943 in Bern, Switzerland.
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Letter to Harvey Cushing from Leon Asher, Optengenstrasse 18, Bern, Switzerland. Asher thanks Cushing for sending a copy of "Life of Sir William Osler" and for contributing to the Asher-fund on the occasion of Asher's 60th birthday.
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Cushing's colour code: White (Correspondence)
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- Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 (Recipient)