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Stanley Leonard Robbins
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Date Country, City of Birth
February 27, 1915, Portland, Maine, USA.
Date City of Death
October 7, 2003, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
History of Life
Stanley L. Robbins was born in Portland, Maine, in 1915. When his mother died during the 1918 flu epidemic, his grandmother, who ran a boarding house in Old Orchard Beach, grew him and his brothers/sisters. During his high school years Stanley moved to join one of his uncles, a Brookline surgeon, and entered the Brookline High School, in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he graduated at the top of his class. Subsequently he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts Medical School. Later he joined the Boston University School of Medicine, the teaching hospital of all three medical schools in Boston. The pathology department used the facilities of the famous Mallory Institute of Pathology for the third year clinical studies.
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References and Further Reading
Bauer, F. W., & Robbins, S. L. (1972). An autopsy study of cancer patients. I. Accuracy of the clinical diagnoses (1955 to 1965) Boston City Hospital. Journal of the American Medical Association, 221(13), 1471–1474.
Chapman, C. B., & Robbins, S. L. (1944). Patent ductus arteriosus with pulmonary vascular sclerosis and cyanosis. Annals of Internal Medicine, 21, 312–323.
Crawford, J. M. (2004). Dr. Stanley Robbins. Laboratory Investigation, 84, 393.
Goldman, L., Sayson, R., Robbins, S., Cohn, L. H., Bettmann, M., & Weisberg, M. (1983). The value of the autopsy in three medical eras. The New England Journal of Medicine, 308, 1000–1005.
Kumar, V., & Stanley, L. (2004). Robbins, 1915–2003. The American Journal of Pathology, 164, 1129–1130. (Obituary).
Kumar, V., Abbas, A. K., & Aster, J. C. (Eds.). (2015). Robbins and Cotran – Pathologic basis of disease (9th ed.). Elsevier Saunders: Philadelphia. ISBN:978-1-4557-2613-4.
Robbins, S. L., & Angell, M. (1976). Basic pathology (2nd ed). Philadelphia/London/Toronto: W. B. Saunders Co. ISBN-13: 978-0-7216-7599-2, ISBN: 0-7216-7599-9.
Robbins, S. L., & Parker Jr., F. (1948). The use of the male North American frog (Rana pipiens) in the diagnosis of pregnancy. Endocrinology, 42, 237–243.
Robbins, S. L., & Parker Jr., F. (1949). The reliability of the male North American frog (Rana pipiens) in the diagnosis of pregnancy. The New England Journal of Medicine, 241, 12–16.
Rudavsky, S. Dr. Stanley Robbins; Brought gift of prose to pathology texts. Boston Globe, 10/10/2003.
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Gallo, E., Marino, M. (2016). Robbins, Stanley Leonard (1915–2003). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4062-1
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