Word: gassers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protective, defensive role of pain was scientifically shot to smithereens," Soresi declares, "by . . . [Herbert S.] Gasser when he determined . . . the speed at which the various fibers transmit impulses and proved that the alleged pain fibers are among the slowest, if not actually the slowest." Nature, says Soresi, could not have been so inept as to give warning duty to its slowest couriers...
...Rockefeller Institute's famed Neurophysiologist Gasser showed that pain is transmitted along low, medium-and high-speed fibers...
...time or another every commanding officer in the U.S. begged Washington to take old man Gasser off his neck, but the high command turned a deaf ear. The war's paramount need was for men who could fight, and they had to be dug up, no matter what it cost. In December, the cry for fighting men became more insistent. The Rhine Valley offensive had cost Eisenhower 55,000 more men than he could immediately replace. With rifle strength in many divisions cut a third to a half, Eisenhower shouted for reinforcements. The Ardennes breakthrough made his appeal more...
...Gasser to Comm Z. On his hunt for new infantrymen in Europe, General Marshall's talent-hunter Gasser will operate under the new command of Lieut. General Ben Lear (see below). The Lear and Gasser hunting ground will be Major General John C. H. Lee's behind-the-front Service Forces command, known locally as "Comm Z" (Army slang for communications zone...
Comm Z, like other base forces which have sometimes outnumbered the forces in the front line, has grown fat with able-bodied personnel. "Courthouse" Lee has done some combing, but lightly; latterly he has demanded a hospitalized veteran for every man he gives up to the combat-training camps. Gasser's combing will be ruthless; his orders are stern and clear. When he gets through with Comm Z, the Army's rear-echelon establishments will be pretty well raked clean of all men fit for combat...