J. Fortescue
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J. Fortescue
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Honorable J. Fortescue was a nonexistent American surgeon and founder of the International Board of Hygiene that the League of Nations recognised in 1926. Honorable J. Fortescue was a brainchild of San Diego pathologist Rawson Pickard. The International Board of Hygiene was little else than a group of drinking friends who had founded it in a Turf Bar in Tijuana, Baja California, during the Prohibition. The original Sir John Fortescue (1385–1479) was an English lawyer. Because most of the meeting
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2021-10-27T20:59:34Z
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