Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with his son John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, famed biochemist of Cambridge University, twice-wounded onetime member of the Black Watch, who, like his father, observes the subtle linkage between science, philosophy, ethics, religion...
...however, disputed Dr. Lambert's re-findings. He was Alexander S. Horovitz, Manhattan biochemist, who had compounded narcosan out of lipoids (fat-like substances), proteins and vitamins. Narcosan is efficacious, he declared, angrily. English, French, German and Australian doctors were using it. Dr. Lambert's committee did not give it fair trial. But the committee's decision was undisputed in the minds of more U. S. doctors. It was made up of some of the best men in the profession: Menas S. Gregory, neurological director of the psychopathic department of Bellevue Hospital; Stanley R. Benedict...
Other gentlemen of the profession expressed a moderate skepticism, They pointed out that narcosan was not a new composition. A Hungarian biochemist, Alexander S. Horoyitz, invented it years ago in Cincinnati, tried some experiments on addicts in the local jail, patented his solution. In 1921 it was rejected by the council on pharmacy of the American Medical Association because it contained "unknown compositions." The chief of police of Cincinnati last week wrote to say that he did not think Chemist Horovitz had effected any permanent cures there. "We do not know that it is a remedy that can be reproduced...
...Cloan, twice Lord Chancellor; mother of Miss Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, scholar and first woman Justice of the Peace in Scotland; mother of Professor J. S. Haldane of Oxford; mother of Sir William S. Haldane, Crown Agent for Scotland; grandmother of Professor J. B. S. Haldane of Cambridge, famed biochemist. These were the fortune she bequeathed her country...