{"id":2121,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2121"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"spies, tom douglas, 1902-1960  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2121","title":{"rendered":"SPIES, TOM DOUGLAS, 1902-1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physician, medical educator.  Born&#8211;  Sept. 21, 1902 in Ravenna,   Tex.  Parents&#8211;  John Earl and Mary (Love) Spies.  Education&#8211;   University of Texas, A.B.; Harvard University, M.D.  Did internship at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; taught Western Reserve University,  1931-1932; University of Cincinnati&#8217;s College of Medicine, 1935-1947;  Northwestern University Medical School after 1947; director of Nutrition  Clinic, Hillman Hospital, Birmingham, after 1936; visiting professor of medicine, University of Alabama after 1941; on Food and Nutrition Board  of National Research Council in 1943 and consultant on tropical medicine  at Washington&#8217;s Army Medical School, 1945; famous for work on pellagra.   Member Phi Beta Kappa; awarded honorary Sc.D. in 1944 by University of  the South at Sewanee. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. III.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Experiences with Folic Acid.  Chicago;  Year Book Pub. Co., 1947.  <\/p>\n<p>     Rehabilitation through Better Nutrition.  Philadelphia;  Saunders, 1947. <\/p>\n<p>     Vitamin Deficiency, the Diagnosis of Pellagra.  Philadelphia;  Lippincott,  1937. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>B1 (Thiamine) and Its Use in Medicine.  New York;  Macmillan, 1939.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Physician, medical educator. Born&#8211; Sept. 21, 1902 in Ravenna, Tex. Parents&#8211; John Earl and Mary (Love) Spies. Education&#8211; University of Texas, A.B.; Harvard University, M.D. Did internship at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; taught Western Reserve University, 1931-1932; University of Cincinnati&#8217;s College of Medicine, 1935-1947; Northwestern University Medical School after 1947; director of Nutrition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}