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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...world's wealthiest, least understood and least publicized organizations for seeking out scientific knowledge got a new boss last week. Down from the presidency of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research stepped John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 76, to make way for a younger man. The younger man: his youngest son, David, 35, onetime secretary to New York City's late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. In World War II he rose from private to captain, is now a vice president of the Chase National Bank...
...theory and practice are the foundation on which most of the lifesaving science of antibiotics has been reared. It was also at the institute that the late Alexis Carrel, keeping a piece of chicken heart "alive" under glass, added to man's knowledge of the tissues which make up the human body...
Last week the American College of Surgeons, meeting in Boston, heard of a chemical attack on tuberculous empyema which may make surgery unnecessary for some patients, more effective for others. Drs. Louis C. Roettig and Howard G. Reiser of Ohio State University's College of Medicine reported on a treatment using trypsin. An enzyme (one of the body's mysterious chemical catalysts), trypsin dissolves dead tissue, but seems to leave the living tissue in the chest unharmed...
...John C. Callaghan and Wilfred G. Bigelow of the University of Toronto. An electrode is inserted through a vein to within an inch of the heart's pace-setting node. If the heart has stopped, electric pulses set it beating again; if it is faltering, they make it beat more regularly. Used so far on animals, the "pacemaker" is ready for human tests...
...Wells's struggle first to win knowledge for himself, then to pass it on (often in the tempting form of fantastic fiction) to the rest of the world, Biographer Vallentin writes with intelligence and sympathy, making clear that Wells was, as one critic said, "a glorified edition of the ordinary man." On the other hand, her biography of him might equally well be called an ordinary .edition of a glorified man. It lists and describes, precisely but unimaginatively, practically everything Wells ever wrote, and it proceeds in a similar, if sparser, fashion to tick off the rest...