Shelby medical circles received a new and valuable addition Saturday in the arrival of Miss Jane Shackleton of Charlottesville, Va. She is to be laboratory assistant to Dr. Reuben McBrayer. Miss Shackleton is a graduate of the hospital of the University of Virginia, and she has also taken special courses in the university itself. She is a technician of the first order, being expert in the various branches of bacteriology, blood chemistry, basal metabolism and the like. These technical terms, though of slight meaning to the layman, yet have a vital interest to every human being in that his health depends on processes and studies of this kind. Bacteriology, of course, is the study of the constructive and destructive organisms upon which nearly al of nature’s processes rest: blood chemistry of the examination and determination of the chemical make-up of the source of life; and metabolism is the whole process of protoplasmic or cellular assimilation and dissimilation.
Dr. McBrayer has installed several pieces of expensive apparatus necessary for this kind of work, and with the efficient assistance of Miss Shackleton, is well prepared for his further investigations into the peculiar branches of this science.
Miss Shackleton is staying with Mrs. Ceph Blanton while here, and should add as much to the social as to the medical side of the community. She refused to express an opinion of the town, claiming that she had not been here long enough, but it is more than probable that she will be another Shelby booster with a few days.
From page 3 of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Wednesday, June 16, 1926
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