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...artist. In 1922 he apprenticed himself to Gutzon Borglum. Six months in the Borglum studio convinced him that he ought to be a surgeon. He took a number of premedical courses at Columbia University in 1922-23, there met and gained the friendship of his great namesake the bacteriologist...
Killing Looks, Magnetic Personalities are physical realities if Otto Rahn's (Cornell bacteriologist) measuring devices have not deceived him. Living plants and creatures emanate an electromagnetic wave which is shorter and more penetrating, although much less strong than ultraviolet light from the sun. These waves now seem to be the "psychic auras" which spiritualists have vowed perceiving. Ghosts may be realities. Onions radiate comparatively powerful waves from their tips. Strongest human radiations proceed from the finger tips of the right hand. Lett finger tips also produce a comparatively powerful emanation. One woman complained that flowers withered at her touch...
...autumn), and Dean Alan Mason Chesney of Johns Hopkins Medical School. They studied medicine at Johns Hopkins and worked at the Rockefeller Institute. To each George Washington University last week gave his first kudos, honorary doctorates in science. Professor Gay made a speech, recalling the university's great bacteriologist -Theobald Smith, "responsible for five or several more fundamental discoveries in bacteriology, protozoology and immunity"; the late Walter Reed, who "told us in essence nearly all we know about yellow fever today"; Frederick Fuller Russell, who "perfected and first employed typhoid vaccination on a large scale." Passing from particular...
Died, Austin O'Malley, M. D., 73, scientist, oculist, author, brother of Writer Frank Ward O'Malley; of arteriosclerosis after a lingering illness; in Philadelphia. As a young bacteriologist, he was credited by Sir William Osier with being the foremost figure in the U. S. in arousing medical interest in the then new diphtheria antitoxin. For seven years he was Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame. Forced to resign because of poor health, he researched in eye diseases, gained fame as an oculist...
...very's triumph was to find an enzyme or ferment which has particular hunger for the coating of most deadly Type III. He had searched the country from coast to coast, had made hundreds of experiments. The necessary enzyme Dr. Avery and Rene Jules Dubos, Rockefeller bacteriologist trained by New Jersey's Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, found in the cranberry bogs of New Jersey. (They found it in the muck of the bogs, not in the berries.) When the bog-bred enzyme and Type III pneumococci are mixed in a test tube, the pneumococci are skinned, like Samson...