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...animals show normal 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eyes: Newt, Rat, Human | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

Koppanyi, still in his twenties, was a student of Dr. Hans Przibram, the great professor of experimental zoology at Vienna, and worked in the same laboratory with Prof. Eugen Steinach, gland implanter. The work of all these men is gravely hampered by lack of funds and equipment, as is generally true in the laboratories of Central and Eastern Europe today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eyes: Newt, Rat, Human | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

Other signatories: William Allen White, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Glenn Frank, editor of Century magazine, Prof. Francis B. Sayre of Harvard Law School, son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: A Distinguished Petition | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...your prof. fill up another glass...

Author: By P. Piper, | Title: THE CRIME | 6/7/1923 | See Source »

...years a number of eminent men have been convinced exponents of supernaturalism. The movement sprang largely from the British Society for Psychical Research, organized in 1882, among whose founders, presidents, or sympathizers have been numbered Lord Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Barrett, Alfred Russell Wallace, Lord Rayleigh, Prof. Gilbert Murray, F. W. H. Myers, Sir William Crookes, Andrew Lang, Prof. Henry Sedgwick, Richard Hodgson, Sir James Barrie, Conan Doyle, and in France, Professors Henri Bergson, Charles Richet, Camille Flammarion. In Germany, Zöllner, Fechner, and Weber, all distinguished scientists, were confirmed spiritualists. In the United States, similar organizations have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spirits | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

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