Word: carrell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subjects range from the Nature of Music and the Masterpieces of Greek Literature to the History of Science. Last fall one professor started a series of seminars on Human Potentiality, soon had his students jumping from psychology to philosophy to religion, reading everything from Sorokin to Fromm to Alexis Carrel. Surprisingly, says Steere. the course has become the particular favorite of electrical engineers, "whom you usually think of as pretty restricted...
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Died. Henry Drysdale Dakin, 72. London-born research chemist whose specialization in military medicine led to his development (with Dr. Alexis Carrel) of Dakin's solution, a sodium hypochlorite wound antiseptic which saved hundreds of lives in World War I, won him the grateful thanks of France when he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; in Scarborough...
...first encouraged bacteria to produce poisons to wipe out other bacteria. Dubos' early antibiotics proved of limited value, but his theory and practice are the foundation on which most of the lifesaving science of antibiotics has been reared. It was also at the institute that the late Alexis Carrel, keeping a piece of chicken heart "alive" under glass, added to man's knowledge of the tissues which make up the human body...