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...machine that both breathes and coughs for its occupant. This "lung" operates by means of a gadget that permits it to explode a sudden spurt of air against the patient's chest. It has passed its first laboratory tests. To perfect his gadget, Columbia University Researcher Alvan L. Barach got $8,300 from the March of Dimes fund...
...slow-acting insulin solutions, developed by Denmark's Dr. H. C. Hagedorn, allow diabetics to get along on less frequent injections (often only one a day). A.D.A. President Joseph Barach summed up: with insulin plus careful (but ample) diet, "the diabetic patient can now expect to live an almost normal life...
...Sinus. A penicillin aerosol (spray) which, when inhaled, gives excellent results against inflammation of the sinuses, bronchitis, bronchial asthma and lung abscesses was described in the New York Journal of Medicine by famed asthma specialist Alvan L. Barach, of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons...
Diagnosis. Gathered together by Richard M. Brickner, author of Is Germany Incurable?, the 30 eminent consultants include Freudian Psychoanalyst Franz Alexander, Anthropologist Margaret Mead, Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, Psychologist Gardner Murphy, Physician Alvan L. Barach. After long pondering, they concluded that the German people have been suffering (for more than a century) from a bad case of "psychocultural aggressiveness...
Commented Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach, Manhattan pneumotherapist who is largely responsible for the use of oxygen to treat weak hearts (TIME, April 6, 1931): "Accidents from fire in oxygen tents or in oxygen rooms are extremely rare. When they do occur, they are caused by some reckless action on the part of the patient, such as lighting cigarets. This man must have lit a cigaret. The theory that a spark might have flown from the motor over to the oxygen tent is untenable...