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...discovery of a hitherto unknown adrenalin-like hormone was announced yesterday at New Haven in a paper read before the Yale Medical Society by Dr. W. B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cannon who spoke on "The Explanation of a Mysterious Emotional Increase in the Heart Rate," revealed that a chemical substance, which he has named "sympathin" is given off by smooth muscle when stimulated by nerves attached to the spinal cord, over which the brain has no control, and affects the heart directly as does adrenalin. It has previously been supposed...
Professor Cannon described his conclusive experiment. Using a cat, he severed all nerves connected with the heart, as well as all nerves connected with every organ which produces known hormones. He also cut the upper spinal cord transversely. The only nerves left intact were a few strands running from the spinal cord to the smooth muscle of the lower abdominal region. He then caused the fore part of the animal to struggle, and observed no change in the heart rate. After causing the hind part of the animal to struggle, however, he noticed a slow increase in the heart rate...
...Since the only tissue known to be affected by sympathetic stimulation in this region is smooth muscle," Dr. Cannon explained, "and since the only connection between the hind part of the animal is the blood stream, and since interfering with the stream in the region where smooth muscle is stimulated either markedly depresses or abolishes the response, the inferences are drawn that a substance is given off from smooth muscle into the blood, that it is carried effectively by the blood to distant organs, and that it influences those organs in a favorable manner, i.e., as sympathetic impulses would influence...
...winter speakers at the Harvard Union, including Cannon. Dimnet, and Bruce Bairnsfather, have so far been exceptionally prominent. George W. Russell, 'AE', who spoke here some years ago, will doubtless provide one of the more amusing evenings of the year. One who is interested in such varied fields as painting, poetry, sociology, and agriculture, besides being an ardent patriot of the Free State, is naturally an interesting speaker. Russell's charming Irish wit attracts not only those who seek to be amused but also those intellectuals who appreciate "AE" as the man who, along with Yeats, was a leader...
Last week F. P. A. printed them in his "Conning Tower." Excerpt: Others behind the conflict, safe and far, Still wage with lips their travesty of war; We catch the rumor when the cannon cease. Here at the front, when most of the cannon rage, The dream-touched actors on this mighty stage In silence play their parts, and seem at peace. Lean, swart and homely, wise and sardonic...