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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...
...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...
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