MEDICAL SCHOOL WILL HEAR TALK ON DISEASE

The first of a series of lectures on the "History of Medicine" will be given in the amphitheatre of Building C of the Harvard Medical School today at 5 o'clock. The lecturer is Professor Henry E. Sigerist of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Professor Sigerist has attained world-wide fame in his field of medical history, and is making his first lecture tour of this country. He will talk on "Civilization and Disease."

The lecturer has been in this country since October as a visiting lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore. In December he is going to Chicago and later will represent his country at the Meeting of the American Medical Association at Minneapolis, thence proceeding to the west coast, the South, and to Havana. He has written many articles on medical history and is the editor of six historical journals.

Professor Sigerist is a Parisian by birth and received his preliminary education in Paris and Zurich. He studied Medicine and Philology at the universities of London, Munich and Zurich, receiving his medical degree at the latter institution. He was a professor at the University of Leipzig until 1925, and Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine.