Professor J. T. Stinson was a notable 20th century fruit specialist and the first director of the Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

 State Fruit Experiment Station in 1900 He is best remembered for his remark "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," given during a 1904 address to the St. Louis World's Fair

Louisiana Purchase Exposition

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. This phrase was an adaptation of a medical summary regarding the health benefits of apples given to a 12th century medical conference at the Salerno

Salerno

Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....

 Medical School

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