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Among the distinguished medical men on the program were Friedrich Wenckebach, Viennese heart specialist; F. G. Banting, of insulin fame; E. V. McCollum, vitamin expert of Johns Hopkins; A. B. Luckhardt, Chicago physiologist; Walter Timme, neuroendocrinologist of New York; Fred H. Albee, surgeon. The business of the Association was transacted by the House of Delegates, which has representatives by population from the affiliated medical societies of each state. The A. M. A. is widely known as a model of efficient administration under the direction of Dr. George H. Simmons, whose headquarters are in Chicago. With 88,000 members-the majority...
...reflexes to the stimulus of light. Proof is difficult, however, that the nerves of the transplanted organs have actually united with the native nerves, and a violent discussion has been aroused among medical men. A number of European savants are convinced of the achievement, including Prof. Gustav Kolmar, Vienna physiologist, and Dr. D. D. R. Burt, of St. Andrew's University, Scotland, who has himself transplanted eyes in toads. But the majority of eye specialists and many physiologists and biologists, are dubious. A Russian doctor, Katz, recently announced the restoration of sight in blind humans by an artificial device...
...held in Room 110, of Pierce Hall, this evening at 8 o'clock. At this meeting there will be a lecture on "Methods and Results of Sanitation on the Isthmus of Panama." It will be given by Mr. J. T. B. Bowles, who for some time has been the Physiologist in charge of Water Supplies and Filtration Plants for the Isthmian Canal Commission. The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon and will be open to the public...
...Harvard University is a brilliant centre of philosophical study, combining in itself remarkable men of widely differing tendencies; William James, psychologist and physiologist, whose pragmatism attempts before all to demonstrate the effective existence of an element of novelty in the course of phenomena, and in consequence, the value and power of action; Royce, who combines a certain pragmatism with a symbolic logic, and seeks in the conditions of action, the explanation of the fundamental principles of the logic itself; Muensterberg, the learned psychologist, with a leaning toward the idealism of Fichte; Santayana, who seeks under action immobility, and under...
...BOSTON SOCIETY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES. "The Standpoint of the Physiologist." Professor Ernest H. Starling, of University College, London. Pathological Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 8.15 P. M. Open to members of the University and the medical profession...