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Last fortnight Scotland's famed physiologist, 68-year-old Sir Robert Hutchison, made some remarks on the style of British and American medical literature. Occasion: A David Lloyd Roberts (famed obstetrician who died in 1920) memorial lecture before the London Medical Society. The average time before papers get into print in scientific journals is around 12 months, but last week's issue of the British Lancet gave Sir Robert's speech front-page billing. Excerpts...
...African coast (TIME, April 3). The lungfish of today are evolutionary laggards. By coming to the surface periodically for air, they can live in stagnant, oxygen-deficient water; when the water disappears during dry spells, they can survive for long periods buried in the mud, not eating, hardly breathing. Physiologist Homer William Smith of New York University, recounting in Natural History last week the case of the canned lungfish shipped to Chicago, said that lungfish have been observed to live four years without food?the longest authentic fast known to scientists in all the animal kingdom...
...Stockholm last week the Nobel Prize award committee announced prizes in Physiology & Medicine for 1938 (deferred from last year) and for 1939. The physiologist honored for 1938 was Professor Corneille Heymans of Belgium, who showed that breathing is affected by chemical changes and pressure variations in the blood acting through nerve impulses. These discoveries have been of great value in treating respiratory disorders...
Cornell University's outspoken Professor Otis Freeman Curtis, a plant physiologist, has long wondered why educated people are such easy marks for propaganda and hokum. His patience has been taxed beyond endurance by the radio drivel of professors of astrology, by antivaccination and anti-whatnot laws, by a science professor who became a Faith Healer and let his son die of appendicitis without consulting a physician. Last fortnight Professor Curtis' patience finally boiled over...
...Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, so trained his dog that he had only to ring a bell to make its mouth water. The governments of Europe hope to make their citizens' flight to safety just as automatic when the air-raid sirens wail...