Doc Multi-Disciplinary

Jerome Coffern plucked back a sleeve to eye a watch on his right wrist. This watch was later to identify the grisly right hand and forearm as Coffern's.

"I wonder how many of you gentlemen have heard of Clark Savage?" he inquired.

Surprise kept the other chemists silent a moment. Then one spoke up.

"I recall that a man by the name of Clark Savage recently did some remarkable work along lines of ultimate organic analysis," he said. "His findings were so advanced in part as to be somewhat bewildering. Some points about chemistry generally accepted as facts were proven wrong by Clark Savage."

Jerome Coffern nodded delightedly, rubbing his rather bony hands.

"That is correct," he declared. "I am proud to point to myself as one of the few chemists to realize Doc Savage's findings are possibly the most important of our generation."

At this juncture, another chemist gave an appreciable start.

"Doc Savage!" he ejaculated. "Say, isn't that the man who some weeks ago turned over to the surgical profession a new and vastly improved method of performing delicate brain operations?"

"That is the same Doc Savage." Jerome Coffern's none-too-ample chest seemed about to burst with pride.

"Whew!" exploded another man. "It is highly unusual for one man to be among the world's greatest experts in two lines so widely different as chemistry and surgery."

Jerome Coffern chuckled. "You would be more astounded were you to know Doc Savage fully. The man is a mental marvel. He has contributed new discoveries to more than surgery and chemistry. Electricity, archaeology, geology and other lines have received the benefit of his marvelous brain. He has a most amazing method of working."

- The Land of Terror (1933) Chapter 1