Charles Euchariste de Medici Sajous was a prolific author and editor who specialized in "glandular secretions;" he is remembered today as the Father of American Endocrinology ... and the last of the de Medicis.  Chevalier Quixote Jackson mastered the skill of retrieving foreign bodies from the lungs and esophagus; he is the Father of American Endoscopy.  Hilary Koprowski was a Polish-born virologist who beat Salk and Sabin to the development of an effective polio vaccine, but who is little remembered today.  His wife, cytopathologist Irena Koprowska, was a co-developer of the Pap smear.  Sajous is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery; Jackson and the Koprowskis are interred at West Laurel Hill.  

 

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