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...doctors, famed Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, who is also vice president of the University of Illinois, sounded the keynote. Said he: "Medicine is the handmaiden of science and religion. Religious and spiritual realms overlap more with the healing arts and sciences than in anything else man does. Try as we might to separate them, we can't do it, because that is the way we are built...
When the digestive system begins to digest itself, the result is ulcers. Doctors have tried everything from soup substitutes to surgery, but have found no sure prevention or cure. Famed Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, vice president of the University of Illinois, has been experimenting for a dozen years or so with a hormone called enterogastrone, found in normal small intestines of men and animals. Finding that the hormone cured ulcers in animals, he began using it five years ago on human beings...
Last week the Academy swung into action. It purged itself of two of its most noted members: Physiologist L. A. Orbeli and Morphologist I. I. Shmalgauzen; liquidated a laboratory on cytogenetics (the study of cell formation), and accused its director, world-famous Geneticist N. P. Dubinin, of having taken "antiscientific positions." All textbooks on biology were ordered rewritten; teaching will be oriented to the Lysenko doctrine...
...Indian-born physiologist and biochemist, director of research for the Lederle Laboratories (American Cyanamid Co.); in Pearl River, N.Y. As a Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives, teropterin and aminopterin (now being used to fight cancer), directed research that produced the new antibiotic, aureomycin (a cure for serious infections untouched by penicillin or streptomycin...
...Pennsylvania for 19 years, he spent his days directing the university's Eldrige R. Johnson Foundation for Medical Physics, many of his nights experimenting in his own laboratory. Though not an M.D., he is a physiologist and chairman of the Government's National Research Council. For his wartime work in aviation medicine, the U.S. gave him a special award, the British gave him the Order of the British Empire...