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Last week, frankly astonished by his findings, Dean Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard's School of Public Health went to Chicago to give a convention of the American College of Surgeons his explanation of the functioning of the lymphatic system...
While studying the lymphatic system. a festoon of glands and channels which drains all the tissues of the body and parallels the blood system, Dr. Drinker observed that inflammation in a wound blocks the lymph channels in that part of the body. This blockade does two things. It causes substances, whose constituents Dr. Drinker confessed he does not know, to accumulate in the wound. These substances cause scars. The blockade also prevents the free flow of lymph to the site of the wound. Lymph, in some manner which Dr. Drinker still is trying to learn, destroys germs...
John Homans, clinical professor of Surgery at the Medical School, and Cecil K. Drinker, Dean of the School of Public Health, were named by Salmen as conducting the research. Their findings he reports as follows...
...past fortnight was also the scene of some mechanical ingenuity. Hospital for Sick Children had only one mechanical respirator, and needed at least one more. The only professional manufacturers of this life-saving device are: Warren E. Collins, Inc. of Boston, which makes respirators designed by Professor Philip Drinker of Harvard's School of Public Health; and J. H. Emerson Co. of Cambridge, Mass., owned by John Haven Emerson, inventive son and namesake of New York City's onetime commissioner of health. The two companies long quarreled over patent infringements. Meanwhile, since 1929 only 250 Drinker respirators have...
...gallon tin, retail at a nickel a pony. According to the thoroughgoing New York Times, it was colored with orange peel and possessed "an aromatic bouquet with a heavier underlying odor like that of tobacco steeped in water." The Times went on to add that it "created in the drinker a sensation of self-centered power, while the images of external things buckled and broke." Its title: King Kong Whiskey...