Word: riley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should search for the human ill which has manifested itself most widely during all times and among all peoples, there can be but little doubt that headache would attain this unenviable distinction," wrote Columbia University's Professor Henry Alsop Riley last week.* Therewith he presented a 116-page summary of what is known about "the most baffling and dramatic form of pain in the head"- migraine. Professor Riley and a half-dozen other able investigators† are trying to solve the problem, with the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation paying the expenses of the study. Professor Ludwig Kast...
...Riley believes that most cases of migraine can be traced to malfunctions of the ductless glands, notably the pituitary and the ovaries. The hormones (messengers) of those glands, he believes, give mischievous information to the nerves which control the contraction & expansion of the brain's arteries. Consequently those arteries go into periodic convulsions. The convulsions make the headache...
...cause or mechanism of migraine, no rational cure exists. Quiet environment, thoroughgoing change of scene or occupation, nourishing food, avoidance of controversy or other excitement, sedative drugs-these are palliatives usually recommended. A few investigators have made their patients comfortable by cutting certain nerves. But that procedure, says Dr. Riley, is dangerous if only because the surgeons do not know exactly what nerves are involved in the migraine complex. He suggests attacking the problem by trying to prevent convulsions of blood vessels within the skull. At the same time he is trying to establish a healthy balance among the migraine...
...summary: HARVARD, J.V. FITCHBURG Nichols, g. g., Spring Grossman, r.f.b. l.f.b., Haggerty Engel, l.f.b. r.f.b., Hipkins Wemple, F., r.h.b. l.h.b., Robertson Ware, c.h.b. c.h.b., Pease Amberg, l.h.b. r.h.b., Riley Bloomberg, r.e. l.e., Johnson, steever Seeman, r.l. l.l., Kerns Kandoian, c.f. c.f., Southworth Fraley, l.l. r.l., McWhinney Phillips, l.e. g.e., Ponte...
...Representatives where with one interruption he served for a dozen years. He learned political strategy under Speaker Joseph Gurney (''Uncle Joe'') Cannon who made him a trusted henchman. In 1908 he stepped out of the House to be beaten for the Indiana governorship by Thomas Riley Marshall, later Democratic vice president. Politically jobless, he reverted to law, became a lobbyist for the American Manufacturers Association. In 1913 the House investigators of the A. M. A. lobby publicly flayed him for capitalizing on his personal Congressional contacts. Laughing off a scandal which would have buried a less...