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...only the third time in 52 years, trustees of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research met in Manhattan last week to pick a new head for their hospital and laboratories overlooking the East River.* As successor to the late great Dr. Simon Flexner and to Dr. Herbert Spencer Gasser, now retiring at 64 after directing the institute for 18 years, the trustees chose Dr. Detlev Wulf Bronk, 55, president of Johns Hopkins University since 1949. They also streamlined the institute's internal-command setup and elected David Rockefeller, 38, the founder's grandson, as, their own chairman...
...heart and artery disorders, and acute diseases of the respiratory system and the liver. From the institute's laboratories, some of the world's most eminent researchers periodically issue reports of their highly technical findings. For studies of nerve fibers and the transmission of nerve impulses, Director Gasser won (with Dr. Joseph Erlanger) the Nobel Prize...
...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...
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...