The Globe obit notes Edwin Salzman died last month at “Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in a room not far from his old office.” He had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in the 1970s.

Turning full attention to the scientific research that had always been his parallel career, he helped pioneer using aspirin to lower the risk of blood clots forming in the leg veins of surgery patients, which can cause a fatal pulmonary embolism…After the diagnosis made surgery no longer an option, Dr. Salzman spent a dozen years working part-time as deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

As the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette notes, he was quite a sailor too.

A worldwide traveler and avid sailor, he spent his summers with his boats and family in Chilmark.