Word: harvey
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Worst Ailment, worse than pneumonia or cancer, in that it handicaps or kills more people yearly, is the group of ailments called heart disease. William Harvey (1578-1657), whose memory the post graduate students honored last week by viewing a cinema version of monumental discovery, first demonstrated the circulation of the blood.* The heart pumps blood into the arteries normally 72 times a minute. The blood pulsates through the arteries to tiny arterioles, whence it seeps into capillaries. From the capillaries the blood seeps into minute venules, then flows through the veins back to the heart...
...Harvey made his discovery, the first in modern physiology, by vivisection which "has always been my delight." He was a hardbitten, "small and choleric" man, physician to both Kings James I and Charles I of England. Of Francis Lord Bacon, philosopher and statesman, who was his patient, he once sneered: "He writes philosophy like a lord chancellor. I have cured...
...Haven Hospital, where Sheridan was taken in an ambulance, he was attended by three doctors, one of whom was Dr. Harvey Cushing, famed brain and nerve specialist. The great Yaleman and disciple of the late great Sir William Osler was in New Haven for a surgeons' conference on the day of the game. Dr. Cushing found that Sheridan had a broken neck, said he might live, under artificial respiration, for minutes, hours or days. After 48 hours he died. He was buried with full military honors due a soldier fallen in the Service of his country...
With a new faculty committee to pass on the eligibility of players and a new coach (Harvey Harman, replacing Lud Wray), Penn came up against one of the strongest teams in the West-Wisconsin, which had beaten Purdue the week before. Wisconsin made two touchdowns but Penn's 204-lb. fullback, Carl Perina, made one also and his teammates made three more. Penn 27, Wisconsin...
Like Delaware with its du Ponts, North Carolina with its Dukes, California with its Stanfords, Alabama with its late Harvey G. Woodward (TIME, Jan. 5), Texas had a friend to education in the late William Clifford Hogg, oilman who died in Baden-Baden a year ago (TIME, Sept. 22, 1930). Son of the late Governor James Stephen Hogg, brother of Michael and Ima Hogg,* he made a fortune in oil, willed a large part of it to schools and colleges. Appraisal last week revealed the extent of the bequests: a total of $2,618,568. In the discretion of Brother...