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Fiddlesticks to all of Professor Laird's speculation about hemastatics and splanchnic pools! Fiddlesticks, too, to the A. M. A.'s visceral tensions...
Aware of the cinders-&-soot nuisance in early sleeping cars, Professor Laird considered that factor removed by modern fine-mesh screens in Pullman windows- an assumption which many a traveler would dispute...
Shrewd Professor Donald Anderson Laird's query to the American Medical Association anent "a rational physiological explanation for having a Pullman passenger's head in the direction of motion" (TIME, April 29) is virtually identical in phraseology with a question put to Professor Laird last January in behalf of progress-minded Willis G. Gray, novelist-president of enterprising Scully-Walton Company, world's oldest (1882) and largest operators of private ambulances (New York, Brooklyn, The Bronx and London...
...inquiry Mr. Gray initiated at that time . . . served to direct scientific and empiric thought toward a question which Mr. Gray's findings answered in precisely the same manner as did Professor Laird...
Professor Laird . . . now makes no mention of one prime practical consideration which helped convince Mr. Gray that recumbency . . . should be feetfirst; the materially lessened probability of severe injury in event of accident...