Minor's name is associated with Minor's disease, a disorder involving a sudden attack of back pain and paralysis caused by hemorrhage into the spinal cord, and also "Minor's sign", a condition in which patients with lower back problems require support of the lower back in order to rise from a seated position. This sign is often indicative of sciatica, sacroiliac lesions or lumbosacral lesions.
Although not himself a communist nor even a political radical, Minor acknowledged the debt that ethnic Russian Jews owed to the Bolshevik government for tearing down prejudicial occupational barriers and opening up a new class of positions and promotions that were denied to Jews by the Tsarist regime. Minor stated, "though in the old Russia I could get no promotion for twenty years by reason of being a Jew, today I am not only a professor but also dean of the medical school. I am not a radical but I must acknowledge the debt of the Jews to the new rulers."[1]
References
^Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917–1930, by Zvi Y. Gitelman, p. 116
