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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's newest prize-sharer was Sir Henry Hallett Dale, director of London's National Institute for Medical Research. His prize-mate: Professor Otto Loewi of Austria's old University of Graz. Their joint reward: about...
Seldom does Dr. Loewi spend more than two years on a subject. This inconstancy gave Sir Henry Dale, a big, diligent Englishman, opportunity to pioneer on his own with many a discovery in the chemistry of nerves. One of the subtlest products of nervous reactions is acetylcholine. Sir Henry found this evanescent substance, when isolated from the body, to be a colorless, odorless, crystalline powder. It causes capillaries and small arteries to dilate, thus lowering blood pressure and slowing the action of an overworking heart. It relaxes smooth muscles, thus relieving spasms of the bladder, ureters, uterus, intestines...
Three years ago when Sir Henry was in the U. S. lecturing to crowds of adulating scholars, he declared: "We do not have knowledge as to the therapeutical or pharmaceutical value of these researches. In the end they may throw light on causes rather than provide materials" (TIME, May 1, 1933). Nonetheless, acetylcholine, typical object of what Nobel Prizewinners Dale & Loewi call autopharmacology, is being used by enterprising doctors to treat arterial hypertension, inflamed arteries, gangrene of feet and hands, profuse sweating in tuberculosis, flaccidity of the bladder and intestines, bed sores...
...Archibald Vivian Hill, with Otto Meyerhof, a German (1922); Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, with Christian Eijkman, a Dutchman (1929); Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, with Edgar Douglas Adrian, another Englishman...
Like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Romeo and Juliet, the Czinner As You Like It is textually exact. Sir James Barrie made the treatment from which Screenwriter R. J. Cullen wrote the scenario. Said Cinemactress Bergner: "I would like you to believe that we have made the film with love and with reverence. " . . We have had slightly to cut one or two of the longer speeches, but every word that we have left out has only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles...