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Last week, at a clinical session of George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D. C., Dr. Paul Fredericq Dickens (no kin to the novelist) told a crowd of colleagues about another narcoleptic, whose name was not revealed. Professor Dickens showed movies of a balding, middle-aged man of average intelligence, average income, who has been catching 40 winks all his life. The doctors thought it great stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Laugh and Lie Down | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...Most notable were Russia's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, "dean of the profession," 1904 Nobel Prizewinner for research on the salivary glands; Denmark's August Krogh, 1920 Nobel Prizewinner for physiology of the capillaries; England's Archibald Vivian Hill, 1922 Nobel Prizewinner for research of muscular contraction; Belgium's Leon Fredericq, president of the second (1892) Congress. Present too were U. S. Surgeon-General Hugh S. Gumming and Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiological Congress | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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