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Professor Cannon had been searching for that thing in the body which stimulates the heart...
Married. David P. Cannon, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr., George Washington University law student and worker on the Board of Temperance & Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and Margaret Lee Fultz. clergyman's daughter; in Washington...
...Harvard professor opened up a cat and beheld certain belly muscles tickling its heart. That was of such profound physiological import that the professor, Walter Bradford Cannon, a great physiologist, last week took train to Yale, which once gave him an honorary Doctor of Science degree, to tell the Yale Medical Society just what he had done, what he had seen, what it all meant...
Professor Cannon opined that other heart stimulants like adrenalin must also develop in other parts of the vegetative system. Hence his elegant operation...
...faster. He pinched the veins and arteries connecting the heart and the abdominal viscera he was watching. That is, with nerve or telegraph system cut off, he now dammed the blood stream through which a possible hormone might float. The cat's heart now returned to normal. Professor Cannon, wriggling the cat's hind part, released the pinched veins and arteries. The heart again beat faster than normal. Obviously the movements of the cat's lower muscles manufactured something which caused the faster beating: that is, a hormone similar in effect to adrenalin. Professor Cannon named...