For more information on the US trauma system, trauma facilities in your area, and traumatic injuries please refer to the following websites. 1  American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. 2  Florida Department of Health Trauma Program.
With his wife Jane, Stanford founded Leland Stanford Junior University as a memorial for their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr. , who died as a teenager of typhoid fever in Florence, Italy, in 1884 while on a trip to Europe.
Dr. Harold Schwartz on Lincoln and the Marfan Syndrome. Dr. Harold Schwartz is a cardiologist from Huntington Park, California who, while treating a patient in 1959, discovered a common lineage between the male patient and Abraham Lincoln. While Marfan syndrome, a disorder of the connective tissue of the body, is a genetically inherited disease, Dr. Schwartz worked to analyze and piece together the connection linking both Lincoln and the boy.