Word: carlson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bohemian doctor brought one of his countrymen to Dr. Carlson's laboratory. Fred Vlcek, now known to medical school freshmen as "Mr. V.," was a barber who as a child had accidentally swallowed strong caustic soda solution. The soda burned his esophagus, and the scar tissue which formed there permanently closed it, so that no food could pass to his stomach. Surgeons had made a neat little hole in his stomach wall, inserted a rubber tube. Mr. V.'s method of eating was necessarily messy: he would first chew his food to enjoy the flavor, then spit...
After "feeding" Mr. V. everything from brandy to paraffin, and observing what happened to his internal workings, Dr. Carlson came to the following conclusions...
These observations, with many others, appeared in Dr. Carlson's classic book, The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease (1916). On his theories other scientists worked out diets for infant feeding, gastric ulcers...
...rejuvenated man' in the United States," he began, "who felt young until he receifed his physician's bill. Dot vas so high he suddenly felt old again.'' Voronoff stalked out in a dudgeon, swore he would never attend another meeting where Dr. Carlson was present. But Ajax got a burst of applause and an enthusiastic kiss from a bearded French scientist...
...Monk and No Monastery. Dr. Carlson's most distinguished opponent is Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who tends to minimize the value of a scientific education. "Three hundred years ago said Ajax recently. "Hutchins vould haf been a monk in a monastery. I don't belief in retreating from de vorld. I belief in staying in it and mastering...