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    The Coffin Cure
    The Coffin Cure
    The Coffin Cure
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    The Coffin Cure

    By Alan Edward Nourse

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Title: The Coffin Cure

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      The

      Coffin

      Cure

      by Alan E. Nourse

      When the discovery was announced, it was Dr. Chauncey Patrick Coffin who announced it. He had, of course, arranged with uncanny skill to take most of the credit for himself. If it turned out to be greater than he had hoped, so much the better. His presentation was scheduled for the last night of the American College of Clinical Practitioners' annual meeting, and Coffin had fully intended it to be a bombshell.

      It was. Its explosion exceeded even Dr. Coffin's wilder expectations, which took quite a bit of doing. In the end he had waded through more newspaper reporters than medical doctors as he left the hall that night. It was a heady evening for Chauncey Patrick Coffin, M.D.

      Certain others were not so delighted with Coffin's bombshell.

      It's idiocy! young Dr. Phillip Dawson wailed in the laboratory conference room the next morning. Blind, screaming idiocy. You've gone out of your mind—that's all there is to it. Can't you see what you've done? Aside from selling your colleagues down the river, that is? He clenched the reprint of Coffin's address in his hand and brandished it like a broadsword. "'Report on a Vaccine for the Treatment and Cure of the Common Cold,' by C. P. Coffin, et al. That's what it says—et al. My idea in the first place. Jake and I both pounding our heads on the wall for eight solid months—and now you sneak it into publication a full year before we have any business publishing a word about it."

      Really, Phillip! Dr. Chauncey Coffin ran a pudgy hand through his snowy hair. How ungrateful! I thought for sure you'd be delighted. An excellent presentation, I must say—terse, succinct, unequivocal— he raised his hand—"but generously unequivocal, you understand. You should have heard the ovation—they nearly went wild! And the look on Underwood's face! Worth waiting twenty years for."

      And the reporters, snapped Phillip. "Don't forget the

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