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Article: DR. ELISHA ATKINS, RESEARCHED ORIGINS, FUNCTIONS OF FEVER; AT 84
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2005
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Dr. Elisha Atkins was a man of many interests.
A former professor and specialist in infectious diseases at Yale
University, he fell in love with nature as a young boy, becoming an
avid bird-watcher and later transforming his family estate into a
nature education center for the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
As a student at Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1942,
he indulged his passions for literature and history, developing a
lifelong fascination with classics, including Homer's "The Iliad."
After graduation, Dr. Atkins, a Belmont native, enlisted in the
Marines and was serving as a first lieutenant in the South Pacific
when he was shot and seriously wounded in a battle while ...