Word: luckhardt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyes bulge, great arms glide around his chest, like brewers' clamps over a beer keg. Just as the initiant feels like the inflated frog of Aesop's fairy tale, the great arms squeeze; the victim drops heavily, rendered unconscious by muscular anesthesia. This initiation "stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden compression of the chest when the lungs are fully inflated checks the flow of blood, produces a sudden fall in blood pressure, followed by a rapid reaction high above the normal...
Among the distinguished medical men on the program were Friedrich Wenckebach, Viennese heart specialist; F. G. Banting, of insulin fame; E. V. McCollum, vitamin expert of Johns Hopkins; A. B. Luckhardt, Chicago physiologist; Walter Timme, neuroendocrinologist of New York; Fred H. Albee, surgeon. The business of the Association was transacted by the House of Delegates, which has representatives by population from the affiliated medical societies of each state. The A. M. A. is widely known as a model of efficient administration under the direction of Dr. George H. Simmons, whose headquarters are in Chicago. With 88,000 members-the majority...
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