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...Bethesda, Md., are free men, but their routine last week was as rigid as a prisoner's. Almost as confining as leg irons were the polyethylene tubes and electric cord that hooked each of them up to a trolley loaded with complicated apparatus. Peter Schmidt, 18, and Lawrence Baldwin, 20, got out of their room only once a day, to walk a few steps down the hall and be weighed on a scale that is accurate to a fraction of an ounce. Even then, the trolley and tubes went with them...
Each of the seven days that the hookup lasted, Schmidt and Baldwin divided their time equally between sitting up in bed and lying down. They could sleep as much as they wanted. Schmidt, who comes from Levittown. L.I., broke the monotony of reading and card playing by strumming his banjo and singing folk songs. Baldwin, who comes from Ithaca, N.Y., was eagerly looking forward to a steak dinner at experiment's end after meals that were identical every...
What Is Normal? Schmidt, Baldwin and 50 other people are volunteers for research projects at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Some of the most fundamental questions in medicine-how man ages, what stress does to him, how hormones interact, how physical changes may cause or be caused by emotional illness-cannot be answered until doctors learn more precisely what is normal and how the system reacts to a single change in its economy...
...transfusion-type apparatus to which Schmidt and Baldwin were hooked up last week provides such a change. A pump sends a continuous infusion into an artery in each subject's left arm. In the infused fluid is an infinitesimal amount-1/90,000 oz. per day-of a mysterious and immensely potent substance called angiotensin. Explained Dr. Frederic C. Bartter, head of NIH's hormone studies: "We know that a lot of angiotensin raises the blood pressure and causes salt retention. What we need to know is whether an increase so small that it does not raise...
...Crimson's Hank Hatch turned in a really outstanding 5.3 effort to take the hurdles, and Greg Baldwin won the two mile. For Holy Cross, Rich Maiberger took the dash in a good 4.6, and Charlie Buchta was the winner in a slow...