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  • Dr. Leo Stanley

    Dr. Leo Stanley

    Let it be known throughout the land that Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley, a man of most peculiar proclivities, did preside over San Quentin’s medical realm from the year of our Lord 1913 to 1951. This self-proclaimed surgeon, bereft of true surgical experience, did embark upon a crusade most bizarre. With a scalpel in his hand…

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  • Saints Cosmas and Damian are regarded as the patrons of physicians, surgeons, pharmacists and twins

    Saints Cosmas and Damian are regarded as the patrons of physicians, surgeons, pharmacists and twins

    Cosmas and Damian (Arabic: قُزما ودميان, romanized: Qozma wa Demyaan; Greek: Κοσμᾶς καὶ Δαμιανός; Latin: Cosmas et Damianus; c.  3rd century – c.  287 or 303 AD) were two Arab physicians and early Christian martyrs. They practised their profession in the seaport of Aegeae, then in the Roman province of Syria. Cosmas and Damian were third century Arabian-born twin brothers who embraced Christianity and practised medicine and surgery without a fee. This led them…

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