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Germans, like Austrians, are less squeamish than Americans in trying new processes on human beings. Promptly Dr. Swick got some human urological cases, injected the drug in their veins, got excellent pictures of their urinary systems. But the patients almost went blind...
Preoccupied with research and dreading lay notice, young Dr. Moses Swick last week hid in the laboratory recesses of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He had developed a method of making the kidneys visible to x-ray photography. The method is so original, reliable and useful that urologists dignify it with the name Swick Method. The shadow material is called lopax in the U. S., Uroselectan in Germany. Its development was the result of chance, curiosity and an inference...
...Swick, 27, finished his interneship at Mount Sinai three years ago. He is a tall, muscular young man, with a ruddy complexion, bushy reddish brown hair, blue-grey eyes. He was studious, willing to work nights on an Arbeit (research problem). Dr. Emanuel Libman, always eager to help talent, gave young Dr. Swick funds to study urology in Germany...
...State Hospital at Altona, later under Professor Alexander von Lichtenberg at St. Hedwig Hospital, Berlin. To Altona, Professor Arthur H. Binz, organic chemist, sent an iodine compound which he wanted Professor Lichtwitz to use on cows infected with streptococci. The compound was N-methyl-5-iodo-z-pyridon. Dr. Swick, inquisitive, knew about all the scientific work going on at Altona. With a retentive memory, he knew that Dr. Leonard George Rowntree of the Mayo Clinic in 1923 had illuminated the kidneys & ureters faintly with sodium iodide. The iodine created the opacity. Dr. Swick asked permission to try the Binz...
...looked as though a Fenn bill might actually be reported out of committee before the holidays. But last week a new obstacle was presented. Five members of the Census Committee sent word they had the influenza-Washington's Johnson, Pennsylvania's Swick, New York's Jacobstein, Michigan's Clancy and White of Kansas. Wisconsin's Peavey and others were out of town. Without a quorum the committee could not act. For the umpteenth time Reapportionment was postponed...