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Among those who will join the Yale Faculty this year are Dr. John Farquhar Fulton, the noted neuro-physiologist, who will be Sterling Professor of Physiology; Dr. J. G. Dusser de Barenne, of the University of Utrecht, who has been appointed Professor of Physiology; Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Ph.D., author of "Life and Labor in the Old South," who has been appointed Professor of American History, and James Harvey Rogers, the noted economist...
...Dusser de Barenne is known for his contribution to the knowledge of the functions of the central nervous system, and has had a wide practical experience in dealing with mental and nervous diseases. Since 1919 he has been a neurologist at St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht, and Professor of Physiology, in the University of Utrecht. He also has been associated with Sir Charles Sherrington, the great English physiologist...
Fresh evidence suggesting that the beat of the heart is initiated by radioactive elements in the blood was reported by Professor Charles Christian Lieb of Columbia (pharmacologist) from the researches of Dr. Hendrik Zwaardemaker, professor emeritus of physiology at the University of Utrecht, Holland. Professor Zwaardemaker took the hearts out of eels and frogs, pumped through them physiological salt solutions. The hearts beat in vitro half an hour or so, then ceased. Professor Zwaardemaker added small amounts of potassium salt to his solution. The hearts began to beat again. They continued so for 24 hours. Potassium is weakly radioactive. Other...
...Nobel Medicine Prizes, voted last month by the Caroline Institute of the University of Stockholm (TIME, Nov. 11), was awarded jointly to Professor Frederick Gowland Hopkins of Cambridge University and Professor Christian Eijkman of the University of Utrecht, for pioneer work in proving the existence, usefulness, necessity of vitamins in nutrition...
...rice pericarp) chaff, soaked it in water and fed the mash to sick fowls. They speedily recovered. Humans also recovered. Thus he showed that eating whole rice was a preventive against beriberi. As preliminary reward his colleagues made him professor of hygiene and legal medicine at the University of Utrecht...