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...annual meeting of the Harvard Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi, P. W. Bridgman '04, Holis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, was elected President, Soma Weiss, associate professor of Medicine, Vice-President, F. M. Carpenter '26, assistant Professor of Paleontology and Curator of Fossil Insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoologoy, Secretary, and B. J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, Treasurer...
...Soma Weiss, associate professor of Medicine, and also a member of the group backing the proposals, told the CRIMSON that he regarded them as "an attempt to talk over problems" that face medicine and the public, and it is to be "hoped that some good will come out of" the "principles and proposals." "It is no revolutionary thing," he said...
...Public Health Service, Chairman Gary Travers Grayson of the Red Cross, and the President's Personal Physician Ross Mclntire; 3) ten private practitioners, including Otologist Samuel Joseph Kopetzky of the New York State Medical Society, Surgeon Hugh Cabot of the Mayo Clinic, Internist Soma Weiss of Harvard, Internist John Punnett Peters of Yale, Syphilographer John Hinchman Stokes of the University of Pennsylvania, Surgeon Robert Bayley Osgood of Harvard...
Boston Beriberi. In Boston Drs. Soma Weiss & Robert W. Wilkins found numerous "alcoholics, diabetics, food cranks and pregnant women" who suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...
...happy Vagabond has drunk of the magic Soma today and is off to hear more about it and the "Rig Veda" from Professor Clark at 11 in Harvard...