Word: renolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albert Renold, Associate in Medicine at the Medical School and director of the laboratory and metabolism ward of the Department of medicine, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, will direct the program. Dr. Renold has contributed significantly to the fundamental knowledge concerning utilization of carbohydrates in the body...
Before & after the Yale-Harvard boat race at New London last year, a professional-looking fellow stepped up to each member of the Harvard crew, including the coxswain, pricked the lobe of one ear and drew a single drop of blood. He was Dr. Albert E. Renold, research fellow at Harvard Medical School, popularly known to the boys as Dr. Vampire...
...vampire, Renold was one of a team which was testing the oarsmen's reactions to stress. Dr. George W. Thorn (TIME, May 21) acted on the theory that in a normal, healthy reaction to physical or emotional stress the adrenal cortex is stimulated. It then puts out more hormones, which (among other effects) cut down the number of eosinophils (a type of white cell) circulating in the blood. Thus a series of before & after eosinophil counts might show whether a man's reaction to stress is normal...
...Renold took random samples when there was no stress, got an average eosinophil index of 123 for the varsity crew. After a practice pull, the oarsmen's eosinophil average dropped to 19. When the day of the Yale race came, the counts were down to an average of 64 before anybody had lifted an oar. The coxswain's was down...
According to a currently scientific theory, a normal person's adrenalin glands issue hormones during times of stress. To prove the theory and the blood test, Dr. Albert E. Renold, research fellow in medicine, Dr. Thomas B. Quigley '29, clinical associate in Surgery, Dr. Harrison E. Kennard '25, assistant surgeon and Dr. George W. Thorn, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics, made the tests on crew members and coaches...
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