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...Homer Smith, 52, of New York University, famed physiologist and explorer (Africa, Malaya), whose work has been based largely on studies of osmosis in fish; for fundamental discoveries about the connection between kidney disorders and heart disease...
...Matilda M. Brooks, a University of California physiologist, discovered in 1932 that the drug known as methylene blue counteracts the oxygen starvation caused by certain poisons (cyanide, carbon monoxide). Acting as a catalyst, the drug improves oxygen absorption by the red blood cells, thereby helping the body to make the most of a curtailed oxygen supply. Recently Dr. Brooks journeyed to Peru, where travelers in the high Andes are subject to soroche, a common fainting sickness caused by lack of oxygen (TIME, June 23). Dr. Brocks took some medical students up to an altitude of 15,000 feet and gave...
Human beings are just not built for flying. But since they insist on flying, they might as well have planes designed to carry them with the least discomfort and danger. So says Harvard's Physiologist Ross Armstrong McFarland. For ten years Dr. McFarland, a stubborn gadfly to the U.S. aviation industry, has scientifically studied the effect of plane design and operation on man, "perhaps the most unstable unit in the entire man-machine relationship." He has also flown a good many miles himself...
...your May 19 issue you say: "Eugene DuBois . . . got interested in the fuel-consumption processes of the body in 1911. . . . He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first ... to use the calorimeter . . . on human subjects...
...students insist that Eugene DuBois is as great a teacher as he is a physiologist. His educational secret, they say, is the old but sound one: he works with his students instead of over them...