Dr. Lucie Adelsberger, 75, medical researcher and immunologist who discovered a link between red blood cell changes as an incipient cancer warning; imprisoned in Auschwitz by the Nazis, she reported her ordeal in her best-seller A Report of the Facts, 2 November 1971.

Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez, 93, a Mayo Clinic specialist (1926-1951) who became a widely syndicated writer on health subjects after his retirement, 18 June 1978.

Dr. Virginia Apgar, 65, developer of the Apgar Score, a test to determine quickly the health of a newborn infant, 7 August 1974.

Dr. Walter Sydney Atkinson, 86, prominent Canadian-born ophthalmologist and eye surgeon who presided over various professional organizations, 6 January 1978.

Dr. Pearce Bailey, 73, neurologist, author, and the first director of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health, 23 June 1976.

Dr. Henry K. Beecher, 72, helped make anesthesiology a specialized field of medicine, 25 July 1976.

Dr. Charles Best, 79, physician and codiscoverer of insulin treatment...