Word: physiologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spread the severed ends into tubular shape so they can be stitched together. Some 30 years ago, Dr. Alexis Carrel, then teaching at Chicago, overcame this difficulty by stuffing torn blood vessels with vaseline. But this technique was so troublesome that few surgeons have followed it. Last week famed Physiologist Anton Julius Carlson of the University of Chicago announced that one of his medical students, Sidney Smith, had finally made the two ends meet-by the simplest of inventions. For this he was awarded Chicago's coveted Harry Ginsburg prize...
...runs a physiologist's description of a sneeze. But such words pale before a sneeze's peppery reality. Last week Professor Marshall Walker Jennison of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took high-speed, stop-motion photographs of this complicated phenomenon. His findings: 1) every spasm expels thousands of droplets, 250th of an inch in diameter, heavy with millions of germs; 2) human "muzzle velocity" runs as high as 150 feet a second, nearly two miles a minute...