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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...erodes the delicate lining of the stomach, produces inflamed spots near its lower end. To experimenters who have long been seeking an easily available chemical which would check gastric secretion in ulcer patients, Physiologists John Stephens Gray, Elfie Wieczorowski and famed Researcher Andrew Conway Ivy of Chicago's Northwestern University brought hopeful data last week. In Science they reported that "extracts of normal male urine," injected in small amounts, "are very potent in inhibiting gastric secretion" of dogs. What the inhibiting agent of urine was, they could not say, nor did they venture to predict its effect on human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Extracts for Ulcers | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...five years before Dr. Charlie graduated from medical school at Northwestern University, a cyclone hit Rochester, injuring 300 citizens. Appalled at Rochester's lack of facilities, old Dr. Mayo began to build a clinic. When it opened in 1889, he was 70 and ready to retire, but both sons pitched in and divided the work between them. From the beginning they specialized in surgery. Will did abdomens; Charlie, everything else. They worked up a large practice, went East and abroad for extensive postgraduate study, and in 15 years found themselves world-famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor Charlie | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Results of the Rifle Competition for the N.R.O.T.C. Trophy in Small Arms for the scholastic year 1938-1939 are as follows in the order of their standing: Washington, Harvard, Northwestern, Yale, Georgia Technology, California, California at Low Angeles, and Tulane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIFLERS PLACE SECOND | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government and chairman of the Department of Government, will teach the basic course, "Contemporary Problems of Democracy" in the newly established Institute of Democracy at Northwestern University this summer, it was announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holcombe Heads Democratic Institute at Northwestern | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...Northwestern's new institute will be conducted on this cooperative plan, whereby students spend equal periods studying in the school and working in industry, take five years to complete the course, will be virtually assured of a job when they finish. Offering civil, mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering courses, the institute will open in September 1940, eventually accommodate 800 students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Midwest M. I. T. | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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