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...famed researchers such as Dermatologist Wilhelm Frei, Dr. Carl Lange, inventor of the Lange test for syphilis, and Biochemist Rudolf Schoenheimer have found little difficulty in securing hospital and university appointments. Other valuable medical scientists, some of whom have not yet achieved medical prominence, are helped by the 77 well-known members of Manhattan's Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Medical Scientists, including Drs. Bernard Sachs, Ernst Philip Boas, John Augustus Hartwell, William Hallock Park, and headed by famed Clinician Emanuel Libman. The Committee, which is nondenominational, administers funds received from the National Coordinating Committee Fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Refugee Physicians | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

That the delicate linings of the nose are influenced by sex hormones is a theory well-known to biologists. Four years ago Biochemist Hector Mortimer of Montreal's McGill University and his colleagues, Dr. Robert Percy Wright and Nobel Prize-sharer James Bertram Collip, one of the discoverers of insulin, decided to put the theory to practical use. They dropped small amounts of female sex hormone estrogen into the noses of patients who suffered from atrophic rhinitis (withering of the nasal mucous membranes). Many patients recovered. But they were amazed when one woman announced that a ringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sex & Hearing | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Front Lobe. The pituitary gland consists of three parts, two lobes and a narrow middle. In the smaller rear lobe, two hormones have been fairly well identified (alpha-hypophamine and beta-hypophamine), which appear respectively to influence uterine contractions and blood pressure. Biochemist James Bertram Collip of Montreal's McGill University discovered a hormone of the middle pituitary (appropriately called intermedia) which affects, though it does not exclusively control, the blood sugar level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pituitary Master | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Biochemist Henry Borsook of Caltech declared last week that within 100 years "neurologists will be able to control the evil in mankind on a scientific basis." In less blasphemous, more scientific language he elaborated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Biochemist's Boast | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Biochemist Harold Oliver Wiles of Chicago's Sprague Memorial Institute, M. L. Fisher of the Manteno, Ill. State Hospital and E. W. Schoeffel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin News | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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