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...Cocil K. Drinker, professor of Physiology and Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, together with his brother Philip, professor of Industrial Hygient, were the first to put the idea of an iron lung across to the public. Due to their efforts 11 years ago, physicians have been able to save an incalculable number of cases of infantile paralysis, electric shock, gas of drug poisoning, acute alcoholism, and drowning...
During the wide spread poliomyelitis epidemic in 1931, there arose an urgent need for some more effective mans to save the live patients with paralysed lungs than the Drinker respirator. To the rescue came John H. Emerson, who was at that time manufacturing scientific apparatus in over Woolworth's on Brattle Street...
...Drinker brothers idea was to use a suction pump to expand a paralytic's chest. Emerson made several improvements; he introduced bellows instead of a suction pump, a much quieter motor, and several conveniences for both nurse and patient...
...think tea is a sissy drink at all. It really depends on the drinker;" answered Nicholas Mellen '39, Varsity football guard, to a query on the Virtues and vices of tea-drinking. The questionnaire is part of a nation-wide survey of college athletes concerning the stimuli of various beverages...
...Scientific Allies of Medicine" will be the subject of President Conant's speech. Dr. Arlie V. Bock head of the Hygiene Department and Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, will talk on "Your Health and Mine"; Cecil K. Drinker, professor of Physiology and Dean of the School of Public Health, has chosen as his subject "Death on Monday Morning, or Man-Made Disease," and Hans Zinsser, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, will discuss "Laboratories and Epidemics." After these talks the subject will be thrown open to debate and questions will be invited from the floor, with President Conant...