Word: medicinemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farrell, 23, Manhattan-born son of a Wall Street accountant, was to make a seven-day simulated trip to the moon and back. Though he would not be exposed to three of the major hazards of space flight-acceleration, weightlessness and cosmic rays-the Air Force's space medicinemen wanted to study his reactions, both physical and emotional, to confinement* and fatigue...
...Once." The Air Force had a robust guinea pig to send higher for longer than man had ever gone before.* Both physician and physicist, Major Simons, 35, is one of the nation's top space medicinemen. Training for his mission, he had logged 63 hours of manned balloon flight, sealed himself in a capsule up to 26 hours, and made a parachute jump. Last June he supervised the trial ascent to 96,000 ft. by Captain Joe W. Kittinger, fighter pilot (TIME, June 17). On the ground, Space Surgeon Colonel John Stapp had drilled Simons for hours on simulated...
...doctors" working with submariners and deep-sea divers. Now, with the craze for skindiving, with Aqua-Lungs, snorkels and similar gadgets sold in the corner store, civilian doctors are daily confronted with unfamiliar problems. In the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the Navy's top underwater medicinemen, Lieut. Edward H. Lanphier, offers a primer. Dr. Lanphier, of the Navy's Experimental Diving Unit in Washington, D.C., is principally concerned about amateurs who use "scuba"-the skindiver's abbreviation for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus...
...researchers' first problem was to find out in detail what happens to the human body during an ascent, and why Aviation medicinemen now give this picture of men at steadily increasing altitudes...