Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A surgeon and the son of a surgeon, Gibbon believes that there ought to be a way to relieve the heart of work during an operation on it. Not only would such a machine give the surgeon more time; it would also let him lift up the heart and cut...
Doctors are always on the alert, Somogyi points out, for "insulin shock"-severe symptoms of trembling, sweating, convulsions and even coma-which follow when overdoses of insulin reduce the sugar content of the blood drastically. But, he argues, there may actually be a serious blood-sugar deficiency before these dramatic...
Professor Louis Tanon of Paris raised the only objection: the recommended dosage, he asserted, was only half enough. The Doctor Friends set up a commission to look into that.
He was well qualified to teach; he learned his own technique from one of the best: the great French pedagogue Isidor Philipp. He also picked up a few hints from his dad. Stravinsky once heard Soulima as a child playing Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques and stopped him: "Tell your...
Born in Switzerland but brought up in France, Soulima remained behind and joined the French army when father Igor came to the U.S. in 1939. Soulima thinks the temporary separation was a good thing. Says he with a smile: "Now that I have begun to work out of my father...