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Brooks Receives 1975 General Practitioner of the Year Award Dr. Philip Carruthers Brooks, 72, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, received the 1975 General Practitioner of the Year Award by vote of the House of Delegates at the 1975 NMA Convention at Miami Beach, Florida. Dr. Brooks was born September 21, 1903, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, the eldest of 13 children of Henry and Carrie Brooks. He
Dr. Philip C. Brooks (right) receiving from Dr. A. A. Williams chairman of the Council on Awards the 1975 General Practitioner of the Year Award of the NMA.
received his elementary and secondary education in the public schools of Hopkinsville and prepared for medicine at Howard University which awarded him the M.D. in 1927. After his intership in Freedmen's Hospital, he returned to his native Hopkinsville, where he has sinc-e practiced. Dr. Brooks has always been a quite modest man, unobtrusive and affable, yet he always radiated that self-confidence and competence which comes of being the eldest son in a large family. The writer became intimately familiar with these qualities during his experience as a waiter on the Noronic in the summer of 1926. When Dr. Brooks was studying medicine, scholarships in the Howard University College of Medicine were non-existent. Nearly all the medical students were lining-up summer jobs during the year upon which they entered almost the day school closed. In
those days, the only employment opened to Negroes, was as redcaps, bell-boys at summer resorts, waiters, etc. Openings for these were not too numerous. Consequently when one had an inside track for one of these, he kept it quiet. In Dr. Brooks' day, one of the good opportunities was on the Great Lakes passenger boats. He had come upon such a one on the good ship S.S. Noronic, a Canadian vessel of the Northern Navigation Company. She was a 5500 ton cruise ship, the largest propeller driven passenger vessel on the Lakes. Her run was from Detroit to Duluth, Minnesota, and return, with stops both ways at Windsor, Ontario, Sarnia, Ontario, Sault St. Marie and Port Arthur and Fort William on the north shore of Lake Superior. The round trip took a week. By 1926, at the end of the writer's freshman year in medical school, Dr. Brooks had worked several years on this run. He and a classmate, the late Dr. George D. (Bulldog) Williams, (M.D., Howard '27) who earned lasting fame on the gridiron and stage, had won the confidence of the steamship line, so that Dr. Brooks and Dr. Williams were the informal recruiters for the openings for Howard medical students on this lucrative run. By the time the writer heard of these jobs, they had all been spoken for, but Dr. Brooks and Dr. Williams told him that there were always some "no shows" when the signingon was done in Philadelphia and that if he would come up on his own, he could step into line when a "no show" was announced, and be signed on. So it was. The steamship company had found that a core of "school boys" as they were called, formed a reliable, stable nucleus for the contingent of 30 waiters, and annually allotted about 10 places in this category, which Dr. Brooks and Williams were expected to fill
informally. After the signing-on in Philadelphia, all of
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Some of "Secretary" Brooks' crew.
us were herded into a single passenger coach which was, in effect, sealed in Philadelphia and taken straight to Buffalo over into Canada and across Ontario to Windsor opposite Detroit. The coach was a day coach, with no attempt at accommodations. After arrival in Windsor, we were ferried over to Detroit and eventually boarded the Noronic. We were given a briefing by the head waiter, who in strong language advised that he was our supreme commander. It was he who hired and he who fired on that ship, said he, and anyone who did not like anything could "get down" now. This gentleman was an imposing figure in the dining room in his bib and tucker, his bald head and Roman profile, but it was known that he could hardly read and write. This, however, was unimportant, as he
......
was hired as a man-driver, at which he did very well. Under such circumstances a literate and competent assistant must exist, so that in 1929, when the writer came aboard the Noronic, Dr. Brooks filled this niche as the "secretary." It was he who kept all the records pertaining to the 30 waiters, filled out requisite forms and made disposition of such employment problems of the waiters as arose from time to time. On this ship, the waiter's quarters were on the hurricane or top deck instead of in the hold. Dr. Brooks, with Dr. Williams, the late Dr. John Wesley (Bubba) Edwards (M.D., Howard, '27) with Dr. Brooks' late brother Henry, had bunks in a room on the portside of the ship. All the other waiters including the schoolboys were in a general quarters into which the headwaiter would storm every morning yelling, "Six o'clock goddamit! Get those (so and so's) up from there! Six o'clock goddamit, can't you hear me!" But when the dining room opened at seven, the demeanor of our erstwhile Simon Legree was the epitome of gentility. On this ship the waiters received the largest amounts in tips from the passengers, and they received them after every meal. Other employees received tips only occasionally and some none at all. Hence a system for redistribution of the wealth was informally enforced. It was expected that all
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the waiters would gamble. Some game was going continuously in the intervals between each meal and after dinner at night. Most of the waiters lost much of what they had earned gambling, except for the school boys. Dr. Brooks had a kind of petty officer status and he and those in his quarters were not expected to contribute at the gaming table, but all others were. This writer had observed that the school boys who followed the plan of losing just a little each day, fared no better than those who did not gamble at all, so that he decided not to lose anything. All the school boys hastened to the Post Office when the ship docked in Detroit at the end of each cruise and deposited all their earnings there. Thus they would not be in possession of any money when the next trip started. As one who did not gamble, the writer was marked for early severance, along with his classmate Dr. Russell F. Minton (M.D., Howard, '29), though he lasted six weeks. One night when he had gone to the deck below to get a large slice of Boston cream pie which had been secreted in a special place by a Chinese pantryman, whom the writer was helping learn English, the writer met the headwaiter coming down the companionway as he was going up. After unspeakable profanity, the headwaiter ordered the writer to "get down," as soon as the ship returned to Detroit. This meant taking your card out and signing off the ship. As the waiters were all American citizens and the ship was Canadian, this had to be a voluntary act to avoid international complications. Dr. Brooks dutifully informed the writer that the headwaiter had told him to get my card, but the grapevine advised that I could probably make one more trip. All I had to do was leave the ship at Detroit without signing off, and as the Canadian guards at the gangplank, when we would leave Detroit, would not know me individually, I was just to walk back on the ship for its departure at 1 1: P. M., because the headwaiter would probably be drunk and we would be embarked and at our first port of call, before he realized I was aboard. The boys said that the headwaiter would not seek to fire me then, because as an
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American national he would have been forced to carry me up to Duluth and back as a free-feeding guest of the ship. This proved to be true. I came back on the ship and it was well underway before the headwaiter discovered I was still aboard. He grew livid with anger, but could do nothing. It happened that the writer had become very friendly with the officers on the bridge, the only Canadians among the crew, through taking up lemonade on what was called the "lemonade watch" at 10:P.M. Through this relationship I obtained permission to climb aloft into the crow's next on the foremast of the ship. On the return leg of this trip, I simply climbed into the crow's nest and remained concealed from view there. The ship docked and after all hands had gone ashore, I climbed down and went ashore also. Dr. Brooks had known where I was but he did not betray me. I came back boldly on the boat at 1 1: P. M. that night behind the "second" waiter who was the unofficial bootlegger of the ship during those days of Prohibition. This man in mid-August wore a huge overcoat lined with many pockets in each of which was a quart of whiskey. He was allowed to come aboard freely despite his unusual garment. They paid no attention to me, so that the headwaiter having re-boarded, drunk as usual, found me next noon at my usual dining room station. He nearly burst with fury, but again he did not dare to put the company to the expense of carrying me to Duluth and back. Hence, I was unmolested until we had entered the St. Mary's River above Detroit on the return trip and he began to search for me. But I had ascended to the crow' s next again. This search was very thorough. He was joined by the Inspector, the Canadian security officer aboard, and was going around lifting the cover of each lifeboat to see if I might be under one. Somebody said a word to him and he and the inspector looked up to the crow's nest. I pleasantly waved to them, and came down because I did not want to embarrass Dr. Brooks or the officers of the bridge who had known where I was all the time. Dr. Brooks gave me my card which I signed with a
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smile. He too was smiling and perfectly official in his manner, the consummate diplomat, who from first to last he had kept the faith with his schoolmate. Throughout his period at Howard, both as undergraduate and medical student, Dr. Brooks waited table at commercial caf6s in the evenings. He also acquired tonsorial and sartorial skills which later secured for him the concessions for barbering and tailor services for the waiters on the Noronic. During his interneship Dr. Brooks passed the District of Columbia Board for licensure, ranking first in his group. He had intended to enter general practice in Toledo, Ohio, and returned to his native Hopkinsville to borrow
Brooks Memorial Hospital, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, opened by Dr. Philip C. Brooks, July 9, 1944, and named in honor of his parents.
funds for this purpose. He was unable to do so, but his perception of the needs for health care in his home area induced him to remain there. By 1940 he felt the need for,hospital facilities for the Negroes of Hopkinsville, Christian County and western Kentucky was so acute that he began to plan for the erection of a private hospital to serve this need. The construction of Fort Campbell, an Army installation, then segregated, just 17 miles from Hopkinsville had accentuated the need. The nearest available facility, a 12 bed "clinic,nwas about 75 miles away. Dr. Brooks began construction of his hospital in 194o1, but the onset of World War in and resulting material shortages prevented its completion until 1944, when it was opened
NOVEMBER, 1975
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Dr. Brooks at the controls of his cabin cruiser. Now the " Skipper, " not the " Secretary. "
on July 9, as the Brooks Memorial Hospital, a 30 bed institution named in honor of Dr. Brooks' parents. It had been built without financial aid from any federal, state or local agency and is still privately operated. The Hospital has always served all races and its patients have come from many Kentucky counties, Tennessee, Indiana and as far away as Chicago. Anticipating many of the community service ideas of the present day, Dr. Brooks traveled much to induce young men to spend a period at his hospital and work with his staff to their mutual benefit. Among those so secured have been Dr. Ben Major of Oakland, California, an obstetrician-gynecologist who has set-up public health facilities in several African countries; Dr. Randy Pollard, a urologist of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who spent one full year as an associate; and Dr. Michael Ivey of Washington, D. C. who worked in obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Brooks furthered his own continuing medical education through attendance at seminars at Howard University and Meharry Medical College and participation in medical clinics in Tokyo, New Delhi, Rome and Brazil. His travels have taken him to Nepal at the foot of Mt. Everest where he made observations on the minimal incidence of cancer there. This he correlated with its primitive technology. (concld. on p. 449.)
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5. 6. 7.
8.
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1965. 9. SAKAGUCHI, Y. Uber das Adenomyom des Nebenhodens. Frankfurt. Ztschr. f. Path., 18:379, 1916. 10. SANES, S. and R. WARNER. Primary Lymphangioma of the Fallopian Tube. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 37:316, 1939. 11. SALM, R. Cavernous Lymphangioma of the Uterus. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 80:365, 1960. 12. MOREHEAD, R. P. Angiomatoid Formations in the Genital Organs with and without Tumor Formation. Arch. Path., 42:56, 1946. 13. GLANTZ, G. M. Adenomatoid Tumors of the Epididymis: A Review of five New Cases, including a Case Report associated with Hydrocele. J. Urol., 95:227, 1966. 14. MALAMENT, M. and W. S. RIES. Multiple Adenomatoid Tumors of the Tunica Vaginalis, J. Urol., 92:210, 1964.
15 new Cases including Review of Literature. 2. Histochemical Study of the so-called Adenomatoid Tumor. J. UROL., 100:530, 1968. TAXY, J. B. and H. BATTIFORA and R. OYASU. Adenomatoid Tumors: A light Microscopic, Histochemical and Ultrastructural Study. Cancer, 34:306, 1974. SIEGLER, A. M. and M. ARISTAZOBAL. Mesothelioma of the Uterus: Report of a Case. Obstet. & Gynecol., 18:498, 1961. JACKSON, J. R. The Histogenesis of the Adenomatoid Tumor of the Genital Tract. Cancer, 11:377, 1958. JABLOKOW, V. R. and J. JAGATIC and M. E. RUBRITZ. Adenomatoid Tumors of the Genital Tract - Report of 12 Cases and Review of the Literature. J. Urol., 95:573, 1966. JONES, E. G. and A. J. DONOVAN. Adenomatoid Tumor of the Ovary Versus Mesothelial Reaction. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 92:694,
p (Brooks, from p. 482)
He has long been interested in the relationship between cancer and the ingestion of foods grown under stimulation of strong fertilizers. Darwin became a scientific immortal through synthesis of ideas developed from what he saw on one voyage on the Beagle. Dr. Brooks has now seen much at home and abroad. For quiet evaluations he likes to repair to his 35 foot Chris Craft cruiser on nearby Lake Kentucky, on which he is the skipper and not the "secretary" of Noronic days. Apparently love of the water has never left him for after receiving the General Practitioners Award at the Miami Beach Convention, he took his entire family of 10 on a long Caribbean cruise. In 1929, Dr. Brooks was appointed by the Governor of Kentucky to the staff of Western State Hospital, a mental institution, where he worked in psychiatry for four years and then went into private practice. In 1944, he built and opened the Brooks Memorial Hospital, a private 30 bed institution, in memory of his parents. In 1962, Dr. Brooks was elected to the Hopkinsville Board of Education on which he served for 11 years.
He is a member of the Pennyrile Medical Association, the Kentucky Medical Association, the NMA and the AMA, as well as of the Kentucky Thoracic Society. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Pennyrile Area Health and Education System and the Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company. He' is also a member of the Hopkinsville and Christian County Chamber of Commerce, the Kentucky Human Relations Commission, Allied Organization for Civil Rights in KentVcky and he served on his local Selective Service Board. A life member of the NAACP, Dr. Brooks is a lay reader and vestryman in the local Grace Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Alpha Pi Alpha and Sigma Pi Phi fraternities. During his internship, Dr. Brooks married Miss Ethel Cowan of Washington, D.C. They have two sons, Philip C. Brooks, Jr. and Cowan H. Son Philip Jr. has two daughters, one attending Georgia Tech in engineering, and Cowan has two sons in secondary schools. W. MONTAGUE COBB, M.D.
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Brooks Receives 1975 General Practitioner of the Year Award Dr. Philip Carruthers Brooks, 72, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, received the 1975 General Practitioner of the Year Award by vote of the House of Delegates at the 1975 NMA Convention at Miami Beach, Florida. Dr. Brooks was born September 21, 1903, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, the eldest of 13 children of Henry and Carrie Brooks. He
Dr. Philip C. Brooks (right) receiving from Dr. A. A. Williams chairman of the Council on Awards the 1975 General Practitioner of the Year Award of the NMA.
received his elementary and secondary education in the public schools of Hopkinsville and prepared for medicine at Howard University which awarded him the M.D. in 1927. After his intership in Freedmen's Hospital, he returned to his native Hopkinsville, where he has sinc-e practiced. Dr. Brooks has always been a quite modest man, unobtrusive and affable, yet he always radiated that self-confidence and competence which comes of being the eldest son in a large family. The writer became intimately familiar with these qualities during his experience as a waiter on the Noronic in the summer of 1926. When Dr. Brooks was studying medicine, scholarships in the Howard University College of Medicine were non-existent. Nearly all the medical students were lining-up summer jobs during the year upon which they entered almost the day school closed. In
those days, the only employment opened to Negroes, was as redcaps, bell-boys at summer resorts, waiters, etc. Openings for these were not too numerous. Consequently when one had an inside track for one of these, he kept it quiet. In Dr. Brooks' day, one of the good opportunities was on the Great Lakes passenger boats. He had come upon such a one on the good ship S.S. Noronic, a Canadian vessel of the Northern Navigation Company. She was a 5500 ton cruise ship, the largest propeller driven passenger vessel on the Lakes. Her run was from Detroit to Duluth, Minnesota, and return, with stops both ways at Windsor, Ontario, Sarnia, Ontario, Sault St. Marie and Port Arthur and Fort William on the north shore of Lake Superior. The round trip took a week. By 1926, at the end of the writer's freshman year in medical school, Dr. Brooks had worked several years on this run. He and a classmate, the late Dr. George D. (Bulldog) Williams, (M.D., Howard '27) who earned lasting fame on the gridiron and stage, had won the confidence of the steamship line, so that Dr. Brooks and Dr. Williams were the informal recruiters for the openings for Howard medical students on this lucrative run. By the time the writer heard of these jobs, they had all been spoken for, but Dr. Brooks and Dr. Williams told him that there were always some "no shows" when the signingon was done in Philadelphia and that if he would come up on his own, he could step into line when a "no show" was announced, and be signed on. So it was. The steamship company had found that a core of "school boys" as they were called, formed a reliable, stable nucleus for the contingent of 30 waiters, and annually allotted about 10 places in this category, which Dr. Brooks and Williams were expected to fill
informally. After the signing-on in Philadelphia, all of
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Some of "Secretary" Brooks' crew.
us were herded into a single passenger coach which was, in effect, sealed in Philadelphia and taken straight to Buffalo over into Canada and across Ontario to Windsor opposite Detroit. The coach was a day coach, with no attempt at accommodations. After arrival in Windsor, we were ferried over to Detroit and eventually boarded the Noronic. We were given a briefing by the head waiter, who in strong language advised that he was our supreme commander. It was he who hired and he who fired on that ship, said he, and anyone who did not like anything could "get down" now. This gentleman was an imposing figure in the dining room in his bib and tucker, his bald head and Roman profile, but it was known that he could hardly read and write. This, however, was unimportant, as he
......
was hired as a man-driver, at which he did very well. Under such circumstances a literate and competent assistant must exist, so that in 1929, when the writer came aboard the Noronic, Dr. Brooks filled this niche as the "secretary." It was he who kept all the records pertaining to the 30 waiters, filled out requisite forms and made disposition of such employment problems of the waiters as arose from time to time. On this ship, the waiter's quarters were on the hurricane or top deck instead of in the hold. Dr. Brooks, with Dr. Williams, the late Dr. John Wesley (Bubba) Edwards (M.D., Howard, '27) with Dr. Brooks' late brother Henry, had bunks in a room on the portside of the ship. All the other waiters including the schoolboys were in a general quarters into which the headwaiter would storm every morning yelling, "Six o'clock goddamit! Get those (so and so's) up from there! Six o'clock goddamit, can't you hear me!" But when the dining room opened at seven, the demeanor of our erstwhile Simon Legree was the epitome of gentility. On this ship the waiters received the largest amounts in tips from the passengers, and they received them after every meal. Other employees received tips only occasionally and some none at all. Hence a system for redistribution of the wealth was informally enforced. It was expected that all
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the waiters would gamble. Some game was going continuously in the intervals between each meal and after dinner at night. Most of the waiters lost much of what they had earned gambling, except for the school boys. Dr. Brooks had a kind of petty officer status and he and those in his quarters were not expected to contribute at the gaming table, but all others were. This writer had observed that the school boys who followed the plan of losing just a little each day, fared no better than those who did not gamble at all, so that he decided not to lose anything. All the school boys hastened to the Post Office when the ship docked in Detroit at the end of each cruise and deposited all their earnings there. Thus they would not be in possession of any money when the next trip started. As one who did not gamble, the writer was marked for early severance, along with his classmate Dr. Russell F. Minton (M.D., Howard, '29), though he lasted six weeks. One night when he had gone to the deck below to get a large slice of Boston cream pie which had been secreted in a special place by a Chinese pantryman, whom the writer was helping learn English, the writer met the headwaiter coming down the companionway as he was going up. After unspeakable profanity, the headwaiter ordered the writer to "get down," as soon as the ship returned to Detroit. This meant taking your card out and signing off the ship. As the waiters were all American citizens and the ship was Canadian, this had to be a voluntary act to avoid international complications. Dr. Brooks dutifully informed the writer that the headwaiter had told him to get my card, but the grapevine advised that I could probably make one more trip. All I had to do was leave the ship at Detroit without signing off, and as the Canadian guards at the gangplank, when we would leave Detroit, would not know me individually, I was just to walk back on the ship for its departure at 1 1: P. M., because the headwaiter would probably be drunk and we would be embarked and at our first port of call, before he realized I was aboard. The boys said that the headwaiter would not seek to fire me then, because as an
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American national he would have been forced to carry me up to Duluth and back as a free-feeding guest of the ship. This proved to be true. I came back on the ship and it was well underway before the headwaiter discovered I was still aboard. He grew livid with anger, but could do nothing. It happened that the writer had become very friendly with the officers on the bridge, the only Canadians among the crew, through taking up lemonade on what was called the "lemonade watch" at 10:P.M. Through this relationship I obtained permission to climb aloft into the crow's next on the foremast of the ship. On the return leg of this trip, I simply climbed into the crow's nest and remained concealed from view there. The ship docked and after all hands had gone ashore, I climbed down and went ashore also. Dr. Brooks had known where I was but he did not betray me. I came back boldly on the boat at 1 1: P. M. that night behind the "second" waiter who was the unofficial bootlegger of the ship during those days of Prohibition. This man in mid-August wore a huge overcoat lined with many pockets in each of which was a quart of whiskey. He was allowed to come aboard freely despite his unusual garment. They paid no attention to me, so that the headwaiter having re-boarded, drunk as usual, found me next noon at my usual dining room station. He nearly burst with fury, but again he did not dare to put the company to the expense of carrying me to Duluth and back. Hence, I was unmolested until we had entered the St. Mary's River above Detroit on the return trip and he began to search for me. But I had ascended to the crow' s next again. This search was very thorough. He was joined by the Inspector, the Canadian security officer aboard, and was going around lifting the cover of each lifeboat to see if I might be under one. Somebody said a word to him and he and the inspector looked up to the crow's nest. I pleasantly waved to them, and came down because I did not want to embarrass Dr. Brooks or the officers of the bridge who had known where I was all the time. Dr. Brooks gave me my card which I signed with a
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smile. He too was smiling and perfectly official in his manner, the consummate diplomat, who from first to last he had kept the faith with his schoolmate. Throughout his period at Howard, both as undergraduate and medical student, Dr. Brooks waited table at commercial caf6s in the evenings. He also acquired tonsorial and sartorial skills which later secured for him the concessions for barbering and tailor services for the waiters on the Noronic. During his interneship Dr. Brooks passed the District of Columbia Board for licensure, ranking first in his group. He had intended to enter general practice in Toledo, Ohio, and returned to his native Hopkinsville to borrow
Brooks Memorial Hospital, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, opened by Dr. Philip C. Brooks, July 9, 1944, and named in honor of his parents.
funds for this purpose. He was unable to do so, but his perception of the needs for health care in his home area induced him to remain there. By 1940 he felt the need for,hospital facilities for the Negroes of Hopkinsville, Christian County and western Kentucky was so acute that he began to plan for the erection of a private hospital to serve this need. The construction of Fort Campbell, an Army installation, then segregated, just 17 miles from Hopkinsville had accentuated the need. The nearest available facility, a 12 bed "clinic,nwas about 75 miles away. Dr. Brooks began construction of his hospital in 194o1, but the onset of World War in and resulting material shortages prevented its completion until 1944, when it was opened
NOVEMBER, 1975
.....
Dr. Brooks at the controls of his cabin cruiser. Now the " Skipper, " not the " Secretary. "
on July 9, as the Brooks Memorial Hospital, a 30 bed institution named in honor of Dr. Brooks' parents. It had been built without financial aid from any federal, state or local agency and is still privately operated. The Hospital has always served all races and its patients have come from many Kentucky counties, Tennessee, Indiana and as far away as Chicago. Anticipating many of the community service ideas of the present day, Dr. Brooks traveled much to induce young men to spend a period at his hospital and work with his staff to their mutual benefit. Among those so secured have been Dr. Ben Major of Oakland, California, an obstetrician-gynecologist who has set-up public health facilities in several African countries; Dr. Randy Pollard, a urologist of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who spent one full year as an associate; and Dr. Michael Ivey of Washington, D. C. who worked in obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Brooks furthered his own continuing medical education through attendance at seminars at Howard University and Meharry Medical College and participation in medical clinics in Tokyo, New Delhi, Rome and Brazil. His travels have taken him to Nepal at the foot of Mt. Everest where he made observations on the minimal incidence of cancer there. This he correlated with its primitive technology. (concld. on p. 449.)
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5. 6. 7.
8.
Adenomatoid Tumor of the Uterus
449
1965. 9. SAKAGUCHI, Y. Uber das Adenomyom des Nebenhodens. Frankfurt. Ztschr. f. Path., 18:379, 1916. 10. SANES, S. and R. WARNER. Primary Lymphangioma of the Fallopian Tube. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 37:316, 1939. 11. SALM, R. Cavernous Lymphangioma of the Uterus. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 80:365, 1960. 12. MOREHEAD, R. P. Angiomatoid Formations in the Genital Organs with and without Tumor Formation. Arch. Path., 42:56, 1946. 13. GLANTZ, G. M. Adenomatoid Tumors of the Epididymis: A Review of five New Cases, including a Case Report associated with Hydrocele. J. Urol., 95:227, 1966. 14. MALAMENT, M. and W. S. RIES. Multiple Adenomatoid Tumors of the Tunica Vaginalis, J. Urol., 92:210, 1964.
15 new Cases including Review of Literature. 2. Histochemical Study of the so-called Adenomatoid Tumor. J. UROL., 100:530, 1968. TAXY, J. B. and H. BATTIFORA and R. OYASU. Adenomatoid Tumors: A light Microscopic, Histochemical and Ultrastructural Study. Cancer, 34:306, 1974. SIEGLER, A. M. and M. ARISTAZOBAL. Mesothelioma of the Uterus: Report of a Case. Obstet. & Gynecol., 18:498, 1961. JACKSON, J. R. The Histogenesis of the Adenomatoid Tumor of the Genital Tract. Cancer, 11:377, 1958. JABLOKOW, V. R. and J. JAGATIC and M. E. RUBRITZ. Adenomatoid Tumors of the Genital Tract - Report of 12 Cases and Review of the Literature. J. Urol., 95:573, 1966. JONES, E. G. and A. J. DONOVAN. Adenomatoid Tumor of the Ovary Versus Mesothelial Reaction. Am. J. Obstet. & Gynecol., 92:694,
p (Brooks, from p. 482)
He has long been interested in the relationship between cancer and the ingestion of foods grown under stimulation of strong fertilizers. Darwin became a scientific immortal through synthesis of ideas developed from what he saw on one voyage on the Beagle. Dr. Brooks has now seen much at home and abroad. For quiet evaluations he likes to repair to his 35 foot Chris Craft cruiser on nearby Lake Kentucky, on which he is the skipper and not the "secretary" of Noronic days. Apparently love of the water has never left him for after receiving the General Practitioners Award at the Miami Beach Convention, he took his entire family of 10 on a long Caribbean cruise. In 1929, Dr. Brooks was appointed by the Governor of Kentucky to the staff of Western State Hospital, a mental institution, where he worked in psychiatry for four years and then went into private practice. In 1944, he built and opened the Brooks Memorial Hospital, a private 30 bed institution, in memory of his parents. In 1962, Dr. Brooks was elected to the Hopkinsville Board of Education on which he served for 11 years.
He is a member of the Pennyrile Medical Association, the Kentucky Medical Association, the NMA and the AMA, as well as of the Kentucky Thoracic Society. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Pennyrile Area Health and Education System and the Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company. He' is also a member of the Hopkinsville and Christian County Chamber of Commerce, the Kentucky Human Relations Commission, Allied Organization for Civil Rights in KentVcky and he served on his local Selective Service Board. A life member of the NAACP, Dr. Brooks is a lay reader and vestryman in the local Grace Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Alpha Pi Alpha and Sigma Pi Phi fraternities. During his internship, Dr. Brooks married Miss Ethel Cowan of Washington, D.C. They have two sons, Philip C. Brooks, Jr. and Cowan H. Son Philip Jr. has two daughters, one attending Georgia Tech in engineering, and Cowan has two sons in secondary schools. W. MONTAGUE COBB, M.D.
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