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Vitamin E. In 1922, Physiologist Herbert McLean Evans of the University of California discovered that lack of a certain principle of wheat germ, tomato and lettuce oils made laboratory rats sterile. In 1935 he isolated Vitamin E, the active principle of these oils, reduced it to its pure, crystalline form. Vitamin E regulates cell division, increases the number and strength of the offspring, promotes growth. Lack of this vitamin results in malnutrition of the embryo and abortion in the female, destruction of germ cells in the male, muscular paralysis in the young. Isolation of Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) from natural...
...physiological rhythm determined by day and night-that is, a rhythm of about 24 hours. So ingrained is this habit that a daily temperature cycle occurs, body heat being lowest (among people who normally sleep at night) in the early morning, highest in the early afternoon. Some time ago Physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago determined to find out whether the human mechanism could break away from this ages-old habit, adapt itself to a cycle of different length...
...fate of most other Jewish, part-Jewish and non-Jewish physicians who mortally feared & hated Nazi domination last week remained hidden in the coffin of Nazi censorship. A Jewish Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Otto Loewi, University of Graz physiologist, was merely arrested. Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his wife were deprived of their passports and ready cash...
...biggest of the ten important U. S. publishers of medical books, W. B. Saunders Co.* of Philadelphia, last week celebrated its 50th birthday. Although handsome President Lawrence Saunders might have saluted himself for his formidable list of 800 medical texts ranging from the late Physiologist Hobart Amory Hare's Essentials of Physiology (published in 1888) to Dr. Leon Herman's The Practice of Urology (published this week), he saluted another instead: Professor Max Brödel of Johns Hopkins, the first & only professor of medical art in the world, illustrator of many Saunders books, crony of many Saunders...
...last week they were going ahead with plans to market chemicals at a price of $1 for 25 oz., and small steel tanks for $6 each. They have 11,000 sq. ft. of hydroponic tanks under experimental cultivation, have acquired the services of a trained plant physiologist. When Dr. Gericke heard of the enterprise, his principal comment was "Humph...