John Felix Marchand ’35

DR. JOHN F. MARCHAND, a familystyle physician, educator, scientist, and author, died of cancer in New York Hospital Sept. 16,1990. Born in England, educated at Exeter, he received both his A.B. and M.A. in biology from Princeton. After receiving his M.D. from Yale, he did postgraduate medical work in Boston and Philadelphia hospitals, was a research fellow on pharmacotherapy at Harvard, and a clinical fellow at Mass. General, before his appointment as an instructor in medicine at N.Y. Hospital/Cornell Med. School in 1946. He was a clinical attending physician at the N.Y. and Bellevue Hospitals and had a private practice for many years in Manhattan.

Dr. Marchand was noted for his research into the influence of potassium in cardiac arrest. He also helped organize field tests of the Salk polio vaccine in eight southern states. Marchand was known for keeping alive the tradition of the family practitioner, making house calls until his retirement in 1988 and rarely billing patients, even when they repeatedly requested bills. When he himself became ill and required aroundthedock care, former patients made donations to cover the cost of his treatment. He is survived by his widow, Keiko Yahagi Marchand; a brother, Eric; two nephews; a niece; and a cousin; to whom the Class extends sympathy.

The Class of 1935