Word: physiologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia's slim, publicity-shy Robert Frederick Loeb (pronounced Lerb), 64, Bard professor of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, one of the nation's top medical teachers. Son of famed Physiologist Jacques Loeb, discoverer of artificial parthenogenesis, Robert Loeb left the University of Chicago after his sophomore year in 1915 to enter Harvard Medical School, graduated magna cum laude. After residency at Johns Hopkins, Loeb switched to Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital in 1921, helped administer the first insulin treatment for diabetes, pioneered in electrolyte physiology, discovered the first effective treatment for Addison...
There are some cases where a carefully chosen antifever drug is what the doctor should order after thorough diagnosis, Dr. Done concedes. But in general he agrees with Manhattan's late Physiologist Eugene F. Du Bois: "Fever is only a symptom, and we are not sure that it is an enemy. Perhaps it is a friend...
Last week Minneapolis' Physiologist Ancel Keys and his wife, Biochemist Margaret Keys, answered yes in Eat Well and Stay Well (Doubleday; $3.95), addressed to laymen as well as doctors. Although he insists that coronary disease and early deaths from heart attacks undoubtedly have many causes, Dr. Keys reasons that an excess of cholesterol in the blood is almost certainly a danger signal. Also, there is evidence suggesting that high-fat meals increase the danger of blood clots, commonest cause of heart attacks...
After an academic career that she calls "not at all distinguished," Mrs. Cannon graduated magna cum laude, then returned to St. Paul. There she became a high school teacher, instructing all subjects by "keeping a day ahead of the students." Two years later she married her remarkable husband, physiologist Walter B. Cannon, and returned to Cambridge...
Pursuing the search, Physiologist Williams found a substance apparently identical with the juvenile hormone in nearly every animal material from tenderloin steak to the human placenta. The richest source in any mammal seems to be the thymus gland, which is believed to control growth. Significantly, Williams found no trace of his golden oil in any vegetable...