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...centers of the brain, and the development of the belief that it may be caused by a condition of left or mixed dominance in the eyes and hands characterizes the trend of research now being conducted by Dr. Walter F. Dearborn and his associates at the Psycho-Educational Clinic of the Graduate School of Education...
...Harvard Psycho-Educational Clinic, the eyes of dyslexia subjects are tested to discover which eye is dominant or controlling. Among the examinations is a test involving a stereoscope through which each eye looks at a series of typed numbers or digits. Ordinarily the subject will make a choice between the left or right eye. Whereas occasional subject sees both sets of digits, he may be classified as lacking in any lateral ocular dominance. A tottery of "sighting" tests is required, since a single test has not been found adequate except when the lateral dominance is pronounced. Dominance in the hands...
Presidents. New president of the American College of Surgeons, succeeding William David Haggard of Vanderbilt University, is tall Robert Battey Greenough of Boston's Huntington Memorial and Massachusetts General Hospitals. Dr. Donald Church Balfour, 52, was elected to succeed President Greenough next autumn. He joined the Mayo clinic in 1907. From the first, the Mayo Brothers were pleased to note, patients whom he cured always stopped to say goodby. In 1910 Dr. Balfour married Dr. William James Mayo's elder child, Carrie. He is generally rated the foremost U. S. authority on surgery of the stomach and duodenum...
...dosing her neck with x-rays or the surgeon may cut out part of her goitre. Dosing with hormones is less brutal than surgery. Doctors begged pharmacologists to give them in pure form the active principles of the endocrine glands. When Chemist Edwin Calvin Kendall of the Mayo Clinic isolated thyroxin, the essence of the thyroid, about 15 years ago, a loud cry of applause arose. Since then other hormones have been refined and analyzed. Last week Professor Leopold Ruzicka of Zurich significantly reported in Nature that he had synthesized the male sex hormone. To get it, this altogether reputable...
...supreme importance to Science. Fruit of that belief appeared last week in the form of a monumental, 15½-lb. compendium in two volumes, illustrated with 3,200 action photographs: An Atlas of Infant Behavior,* by Arnold Lucius Gesell, M. D., Ph.D., Sc.D., director of Yale University's Clinic of Child Development...