Word: physiologist
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...there no cure for epilepsy?" many have asked. No, none. Yet in Moscow last week a truly well-known physiologist, Professor Pavlof, froze part of a dog's brain. The dog developed epilepsy. In its veins Pavlof found a toxin which he believes to be the specific cause of the epileptic condition. He immunized a healthy beast by injecting it with the toxin. "If this works with humans," his assistant Dr. Speranski, told a concourse of physicians at Leningrad, "Pavlof has a cure for epilepsy...
...mines could be relieved from fatigue by small doses of sodium phosphate. Now Professor Neville Moss of the University of Birmingham claims that miners working in a temperature of about 100° become exhausted less easily when drinking water that contains even 0.2% of common salt. The British physiologist, J. S. Haldane, explains this as due to the fact that the salt added to the drinking water makes up for that taken from the body by perspiration. Scientists are inclined to regard the matter as empirical and await controlled experiments...
...Significance. Author Lawrence looks into life as a mystical physiologist. He would lead men back through the wombs of the ages to the birthday of the species, lest they forget the elements of their nature. For him, good and evil lie far underneath manners and exist only where the primal passions are pure or emasculate. St. Mawr, the burning bay stallion, incarnates the Lawrentian purity as has no other creature...
Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout: A physiologist who in the action of the primordial cell has sought the laws of growth that govern all organic life...
...Science, the 100 who met last week in Washington. They assembled as the 4 National Academy of Sciences to consider news from unknown fields. For her exploration of blood cells, they received into their ranks the first woman member of their company, Miss Florence Rena Sabin, physiologist at Johns Hopkins Medical School...