Word: lumsden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks since successful experiments in acceleration of plant growth by artificial light were announced (TIME, Nov. 5). Now we have the next step: etherizing them to make them grow. Prof. David Lumsden, of the Federal Horticultural Board, found out that if a "shot of dope" is given to a plant either by inhalation or a hypodermic needle, exactly the,contrary of the effect of ether on human beings is produced. Instead of putting plants to sleep it can produce overnight perceptible fresh green shoots from rose bushes dug out of frozen ground in midwinter. Kept indoors on the ether diet...
...Lumsden will lecture at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Building E of the Harvard Medical School. This is the last of a series of lectures on "Rural Sanitation" by Dr. Lumsden, who is a national authority on the subject...
...Leslie L. Lumsden, national authority on rural sanitation and Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin, assistant surgeon-general of the United States Public Health Service, are coming from Washington to lecture during the next fortnight in Dr. M. J. Posenau's course on "Public Health Administration" at the new Harvard School of Public Health. Their lectures will be open to the general public as well as to students of the School...
...Lumsden, who originated the plan of field work in rural sanitation which is now employed by the Public Health Service, and has had wide experience in work of this sort, especially in the Southern states, will speak on "Rural Sanitation" on Tuesday and Thursday, January 9 and 11. Dr. McLaughlin, who served as Massachusetts state commissioner of health before taking his present position, will speak on "Public Health Administration from the Standpoint of the Federal Government" on January 16 and 18. Each lecture will be given at 4 P. M. in Building E. Harvard Medical School. No tickets will...