Yellăprăgădā SubbăRow: a lifetime of service

On Sunday August 8, 1948 Yellăprăgădā SubbăRow put in his usual long day at work, read the newspaper in bed at night, then placed it with his reading glasses on the bed side table, and went to sleep to never wake up again. Thus ended the life of an extraordinary individual who achieved a tremendous amount in his short life of 53 years.1 SubbaRow was born in a poor South Indian family . His high school and medical college careers were mediocre at best and consequently he was not selected into...