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...fate of most other Jewish, part-Jewish and non-Jewish physicians who mortally feared & hated Nazi domination last week remained hidden in the coffin of Nazi censorship. A Jewish Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Otto Loewi, University of Graz physiologist, was merely arrested. Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his wife were deprived of their passports and ready cash...
Student members of the orchestra are: Eric T. Clarke '38, John T. Clarke '41, N. James Dain '39, Paul Franken '40, Richard S. Fogelman '40, Roger W. Loewi '39, James L. Morrisson '38, Rupert W. Pole '40, Raphael N. Silverman 2G, concertmaster, Elkan Turk, Jr. '39. The remaining ten members are from Radcliffe or outside. David H. Kimball '38, director of the entire group, conducts the orchestra...
...Loewi discovered, Dr. Dale proved, that nervous impulses are the result of chemical action, not of electrical action as had formerly been supposed. Dr. Loewi might have had all the credit for this fundamental physiological work, if he were a more persistent researcher. A rich, energetic, glib man of medium height, he rises each morning at 5 o'clock, is in his laboratory exactly one hour later. Assistants do all the actual experimenting, for Dr. Loewi is remarkably clumsy, breaking almost everything he touches. This characteristic almost ruined Dr. Loewi's career a decade ago. He asserted that...
Seldom does Dr. Loewi spend more than two years on a subject. This inconstancy gave Sir Henry Dale, a big, diligent Englishman, opportunity to pioneer on his own with many a discovery in the chemistry of nerves. One of the subtlest products of nervous reactions is acetylcholine. Sir Henry found this evanescent substance, when isolated from the body, to be a colorless, odorless, crystalline powder. It causes capillaries and small arteries to dilate, thus lowering blood pressure and slowing the action of an overworking heart. It relaxes smooth muscles, thus relieving spasms of the bladder, ureters, uterus, intestines...
...lecturing to crowds of adulating scholars, he declared: "We do not have knowledge as to the therapeutical or pharmaceutical value of these researches. In the end they may throw light on causes rather than provide materials" (TIME, May 1, 1933). Nonetheless, acetylcholine, typical object of what Nobel Prizewinners Dale & Loewi call autopharmacology, is being used by enterprising doctors to treat arterial hypertension, inflamed arteries, gangrene of feet and hands, profuse sweating in tuberculosis, flaccidity of the bladder and intestines, bed sores...