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Convened in Sanders Theatre were the world's foremost physiologists. Most notable were Russia's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, "dean of the profession," 1904 Nobel Prizewinner for research on the salivary glands; Denmark's August Krogh, 1920 Nobel Prizewinner for physiology of the capillaries; England's Archibald Vivian Hill, 1922 Nobel Prizewinner for research of muscular contraction; Belgium's Leon Fredericq, president of the second (1892) Congress. Present too were U. S. Surgeon-General Hugh S. Gumming and Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
...Pavlov. Leningrad's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was the most revered man at the Congress. Limping on his right foot he tried to avoid a crowd of learned admirers. They crowded about him and forced him to hold a sort of court. He liked the adoration. His early big work was on the salivary glands and on the nerves of the heart. His current work is on the functioning of the brain. Behaviorists have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition...
Among the distinguished physiologists who will be present at the Congress are, in addition to Krogh, Professor Pavlov of Leningrad and Professor Leon Fredriq. The President of the Congress is Dr. William H. Howell of Johns Hopkins University. The local committee in charge of arrangements consists of Cannon, chairman, and Doctors E. J. Cohn and A. C. Redfield '13 of the Medical School, secretaries...
...Pavlov's researches have revolutionized the study of human psychology. Man is now regarded as a higher member of the animal kingdom psychologically as well as physiologically. On account of the greater complexity of the human brain, more types of reaction are possible but the underlying mechanics are the same. The recent work on shell shock has demonstrated what harm can arise from badly conditioned reflexes...
Physiologist Pavlov has reached the point where he can create a nervous condition in animals similar to the nervous states of man which border on insanity. He is now applying his results to the reconditioning of the insane and the education of the mentally deficient...