Volume 7 AUTUMN 1950 Number 1Dr. Luckhardt RetiresDr. Arno B. Luckhardt, William Beaumont Distinguished.ervice Professor of Physiology, retired at the end of theummer. On the evening of June 12 a group of two hundrednd fifty friends and former students attended a dinner athe Quadrangle Club in his honor. Dr. Irving Fritz pre­ented Dr. and Mrs. Luckhardt with a record-player fromhe undergraduate students in Physiology, and Dr. JohnIutchens announced the establishment of the Arno B. Luck­ardt Fellowship for predoctoral study in physiology. Theollowing address by Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt, reflecting theigh esteem and affection felt by all who know Dr. Luck­ardt, was the climax to the banquet.fro Toastmaster, Dr. and Mrs. Luckhardt, and friends of.rno and Louella:I have been chosen to speak on this occasion because Iave known and loved Arno Luckhardt for almost forty.ears. I first met him on the comer of Fifty-fifth Streetnd Greenwood Avenue at five o'clock in the morning oneptember- 25, I 9Il. I had just come to Chicago, and Dr.arlson had invited me to caddie for him at a game of golfn the recently constructed course in Jackson Park. Dr.uckhardt and Dr. Woelfel, an assistant professor of physi­logy, were to be the other members of the threesome. I hadever seen a game of golf before, but from the vantage point'I f the years that have passed I realize that this first gameas somewhat unorthodox in several respects. In the first.ace, Arno Luckhardt was wearing a stiff white collar, ahite bow tie, and a pair of glasses that pinched on his noseid were attached to a small gold chain that extended to hisit ear. Dr. Carlson played around the course barefootedecause he said he liked the feeling of the cool, green grass!tween his toes. Dr. Woelfel alone resembled golfers of ater day when he astounded my fresh-an ears with a display of classical pro-nity.thal for originality, force, an va­j!ty surpassed anything that I had heard[:fore in the smelters of Montana or that[nave encountered since in the operatingloms of Billings Hospital.A short time after this memorableme of golf, which, by the way, was'no's first and last experience with thestime, he married Miss Louella Le-o iau, The wedding was held in Somo­uk, Illinois, the home of the bride, waslyreported in the newspapers of Somo­uk, and was then enshrined for all pos­city in the famous column of B. L. T.,� "Line 0' Type" of the Chicago Trib­�. The editor of the Somonauk paper,mg of a cautious, scientific turn ofnd, had devoted four or five para­-rphs describing the beautiful and tal-ted Miss LeBeau, her dress for the'dding, the dresses of her mother andters, the quality of her father and DR. ARNO B. LUCKHARDTbrothers, and the high place that thisfamily had held for generations in thatpart of Illinois. A short statement wasmade about the groom, which, becauseof its restraint and caution, was seizedupon for republication in the "Line" byB. L. T. The editor said: "The groomis a Professor in The University of Chi­cago, but so far as I know, he has alwaysacted the part of a gentleman."My next contact with Arno came whenI had the good fortune to have him asmy teacher in several courses in Physi­ology. Here I became, for the first time,impressed with his vast information, hislove for physiology, and his enthusiasmfor teaching. I shall never forget the re­peated demonstrations he gave us of themotility of the esophagus and the move­ments and secretions of the stomach,using himself as the guinea pig. Subse- quently, it was the enthusiasm of Dr.Luckhardt and the counsel of Dr. Carl­son that turned me toward a career inphysiology when I finished my medicaltraining.The first of Dr. Luckhardt's researchactivities that I remember was concernedwith the part played by the spleen in theformation of antibodies against infection.This problem is still of current interestand is being studied at the present timewith similar methods both in the labora­tory and in the clinic. Then followedwork for several years on the physiologyof gastric secretion and on the motilityof the stomach. lowe my own interestin this fascinating subject to these earlyconversations with Arno and the privi­lege of witnessing many of the early ex­periments.[Continued on p. 9]2 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINThe hole where the neu/ isotope research laboratories will be, taken from the fire escape of the Physiology Building, facing south. Tb.building in the background is the new Nathan Goldblatt Memorial Hospital; on the right is the east wall of Billings Hospital.The Argonne CancerResearch HospitalMuch of the hope of curing cancerand of understanding other diseases restsupon the use of radioactive isotopes.These war-born compounds are ordinarychemicals which have been placed for ashort time in a chain-reaction "pile."When they are removed, they havechanged only in that they give off power­ful radiations, just as normal radiumdoes. This radioactivity makes the chem­icals tremendously useful in two ways.Since a substance that gives off radi­ation can be detected with Geiger coun­ters, a radioactive isotope that has beenfed or injected into a living body canbe followed through its whole course.This gives us a method of tracing thecomplex biochemical processes of life.In the second place, the radiationsfrom these isotopes are powerful enoughto kill living cells. If one of them couldbe concentrated in cancerous tissue, itwould destroy the cancer cells. Sinceiodine always settles in the thyroid gland,radioactive iodine is one of the powerfulnew weapons for cancer of the thyroid.The search for additional tracers that may be useful in cancer conditions willbe continued.But isotopes are hard to handle. Theradiation that makes them useful alsomakes them dangerous. In order to ex­plore their usefulness on a large scale, aspecially designed building is needed. Forthis purpose the United States AtomicEnergy Commission is constructing a re­search hospital adjacent to the GoldblattHospital.Not only will it supplement the Uni­versity'S cancer program, but it will pro­vide a means of bringing together scien­tists from twenty-nine co-operating uni­versities. As the prime contractor, theUniversity of Chicago will be responsiblefor the staff and operation of the hospitalfor the Atomic Energy Commission.Basil Harvey Loan FundOver $6,000 has been raised for theHarvey Fund. Contributions of $2.00 to$2,500 have been received to make thistotal. The committee has worked veryhard and hopes that by the end of theyear their total will be impressive, butthey wish to emphasize that the fundwill always be open to gifts so that any­one who feels that times are difficult now may contribute later or recontribute.At the annual meeting of the Association, the Basil Harvey Loan Fund Committee was voted no longer an adjunctof the Association, since it had accomplished the purpose for which it was ere­ated, that of establishing a revolving loarfund for medical students, but that itwould operate independently in the con­tinuation of its work.With pride we print the letter of atillustrious alumnus which we receivedwith a very substantial check for theBasil Harvey Fund:Gentlemen .'Throughout ·most of my sojourn as Istudent in the University of Chicago I Willgranted remission of tuition. Without thi:assistance I should have been unable to pur­sue my studies. Since leaving the Universit)I have striven to justify the confidence o.the University in my scholastic promise. ButI have been also looking for a suitable occa­sion to express my gratitude in a more maoterial way, and it seems to me that the BasiHarvey Fund is what I have been awaitingThe Lord having prospered me in a modestway I take pleasure . . . in expressing JD�gratitude to the University and my adDll'ration for the work and character of Dr,Harvey.Sincerely,PERCIVAL BAILEYMEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 3;ift from Stewart Estate ToAid Cancer ResearchBecause of a recent gift from the Alex­nder and Margaret Stewart. Trust Fund,. has been possible to extend further theancer facilities of the Clinics. Dr. Rogerdorris, a graduate of the University of'hicago Medical School, is returning toike charge of this development. He will1) study the use of new compounds inatients who have received maximum.enefit from surgery, radiology, or othernown methods of therapy; (2) institutefollow-up system to keep in touch withatients who have gone through the Clin­:s; and (3) co-operate with those nowrorking in the field of experimentalhemotherapy, .This gift was made possible because�r. L. W. Holbrook of Washington,).c., was impressed with our facilitiesDr cancer research and as trustee of thetewart estate was authorized to supportlark in this field. .The founder of the estate, Alexandertewart, came to this country from Can­da toward the middle of the nineteenthentury and settled in Wisconsin at thelace that was to be Wausau. He acquiredirge holdings in lumber and paper-man­facturing plants in Wisconsin and also1 Oregon and California. A Republican,e was congressman from Wisconsin for'Va terms beginning in 1906. He died in�1 2; his widow, in 1931. They left twoaughters, Mrs. Helen S. DeVore, wife: Brigadier General DeVore, and Mrs.[ary E. Stewart.Mrs. Stewart died in Washington,,.c., October 16, 1947. In her will,I The New Food CenterNone of the buildings under construc­tion or contemplated for constructioncontains any facilities for the prepara­tion of food, for laundry, or for the otherservices necessary in the operation of ahospitaL Although this means that thenew hospitals will be completely devotedto teaching, research, and the care ofpatients, it imposes an impossible burdenupon the existing service facilities ..The University therefore has con­structed a one-story building at base­ment level in the central court of Bill­ings Hospital which provides adequatekitchen space for all the hospitals, pres­ent and proposed, located in the MedicalCenter group. It has a cafeteria largeenough to serve the personnel, out-pa­tients, and visitors for all the hospitalsof the University. Furthermore, for thefirst time spacious staff dining-rooms willbe available which can be subdivided intoseparate rooms for special meetings. Ad­ditional space is provided for the centrallinen and serving rooms, for enlargementof the medical photographic work, andfor a gift shop.It is estimated that the cost of thebuilding will probably reach a milliondollars. Medical and BiologicalSalaries Suspense FundThe Council on Medical and BiologicalResearch is working on a drive to securea sizable sum of money, not for build­ings, but for larger salaries for youngresearch scientists. The plan for the newscale of pay will become effective whenthe full amount is secured.The appeal is going to business firmswith the argument that all business isbenefited by advance in science and thatyoung men who have had ten years ofmedical 'training must be paid adequatesalaries if they can be expected to stayin investigative fields.Under the enthusiastic leadership ofMr. Herbert P. Zimmermann, chairmanof the Council, the drive has passed itshalfway mark. Unexpected interest hasbeen shown; some firms have contributedas much as $10,000, and some have sig­nified their intention of making annualgifts.Among others, these well-known com­panies have subscribed generously: TheToni Company; Sears, Roebuck; Mar­shall Field's; Hillman's; Inland Steel;Great Lakes Dredge and Dock; Inter­national Harvester; Continental Casual­ty; Standard Railway Equipment; OscarMayer Foundation; Thor Corporation;Libby, McNeill's; and the Field Enter­prises.she designated that the estate, whichamounted to around $4,000,000, shouldbe known as the "Alexander and Marga­ret Stewart Trust Fund" in honor of her parents and that the net income, afterthe death of her sister, should be usedfor the furtherance of research in thefield of cancer.'his with a little imagination. witt give you an idea of the magnitude and beauty of the new Court Building which witt be in service soon4 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINSCIENTIFIC SECTIONOn account of the great interest in theinvestigations with ACTH and cortisone,it is thought timely to summarize someof these investigations in progress atThe Clinics. It is anticipated that furtherbrief progress reports will be made.Studies on ACTHBy ALBERT DORFMANDepartment of PediatricsFollowing the well-known discoveryby Hench and Kendall of the efficacyof ACTH and cortisone in rheumatoidarthritis and rheumatic fever, smallamounts of ACTH and later cortisonewere made available to us for studiesof rheumatic fever and related diseasesin children. Since the supplies of drugswere so limited at that time, arrange­ments were made whereby many studiescould be carried out simultaneously byseveral groups in the hospital. The firstpatients were placed on metabolic studyon A-4, and relatively complete meta­bolic studies were carried out with theaid of Miss Brand. and Miss Frank onA-4 and Dr. Roseman, Miss Bowman,Miss Dailey, and Mrs. Marsh in thePediatric Chemistry Laboratory. Studieson tissue changes were carried on byDr. Benditt on biopsies performed byDr. Newman. Dr. Halstead made vari­ous psychological measurements, whileDr. Apter carried out psychiatric studies.Studies of changes in thyroid functionas a result of ACTH therapy were car­ried out by Dr. Clark's laboratory. Aco-operative arrangement was made withLa Rabida Sanitarium whereby selectedpatients were transferred to Bobs Rob­erts and A-4 for therapy. Many of thesestudies are still in progress both at BobsRoberts and at La Rabida.We have now treated about twenty­five patients with various types of rheu­matic fever. It is quite apparent thatACTH and cortisone exert a strikingeffect on the manifestation of this dis­ease including carditis. It is still tooearly to determine whether they merelysuppress the signs and symptoms of thedisease or actually change the course ofthe disease. Whether treatment of acuterheumatic fever with these hormones willdecrease the incidence of rheumatic heartdisease is a matter which will requirelong-term follow-up of large numbers ofpatients.Studies on the mechanism of actionof these drugs have so far yielded onlyinteresting leads. It is quite apparentthat ACTH and cortisone do bring aboutstriking changes in connective tissue, butthe relation of these effects to thera­peutic effects is still unknown. ACTH and Cortisone in theTreatment of Certain AcuteInfections of Viral andBacterial OriginBy CLAYTON G. Loost.rDepartment of MedicineThe dramatic effect of adrenocortico­trophic hormone (ACTH) and cortisoneon rheumatoid arthritis and other colla­gen diseases has stimulated many studiesof the effect of these hormones on acuteinfections of viral and bacterial origin.At the first clinical conference on ACTHsponsored by Armour and Company, �in­land and associates reported observationsof treatment of single cases of atypical(viral) and pneumococcal pneumonia.ACTH did not hasten the clearing of thelesion in atypical pneumonia, but it wasconsidered to have brought about morerapid clearing of the pneumococcal le­sion. ACTH, however, produced rapidclinical improvement in both cases.In our laboratory we have studied theeffect of ACTH on experimental air-borneinfluenza virus infection in mice and fer­rets. In different experiments mice weregiven daily doses varying from 0.25 to4 mgm. of ACTH in saline given in 0.1ml. amounts at approximately 8-hour in­tervals. Treatment was begun at least24 hours before the animals were exposedto influenza virus. The mice were exposedto sufficient air-borne virus to producedeath in from 15 to 100 of the untreatedanimals.In the amounts given there was noeffect of ACTH on the clinical course orsurvival rates in the treated comparedto the control animals. In fact, in eachof four experiments, in which from 30 to55 mice were employed in each of thetest and control groups, the percentageof deaths was somewhat greater in thetreated groups. There was no demonstra­ble gross or microscopic difference in thepathology of the pulmonary lesions inthe test and control mice. ACTH had noeffect also on the rapidity of growth orquantity of virus in the lung of thetreated animals compared to the un­treated mice. Antibodies to the influenzavirus appeared at essentially the sametime (6 days) and rose to high levels insurviving animals of the test and controlgroups.As ACTH appeared to have no effecton the (a) survival rate, (b) the pathol­ogy, (c) the growth of virus in the lungs,or (d) the antibody response to air-borneinfluenza infection in mice, these studieswere extended to the ferret. This animal,being larger and highly susceptible to ex­perimental influenza, becomes clinically ill with high fever, cough, conjunctivitis,rhinitis and lassitude when exposed tothe virus. ACTH given in 6 mgm. dailydoses per kilogram in three subcutane­ous injections at 8-hour intervals had noeffect on these clinical manifestations,nor did it alter the pathology or anti­body response in the ferret.Stokes and associates havestudied theeffect of ACTH on acute anterior polio­myelitis in man and found no beneficialor obvious deleterious effect as judgedby (a) the temperature response, (b)paralysis, (c) progressive paralysis, or(d) residual effects when treatment ofthe illness was begun after onset ofsymptoms. Likewise ACTH, according.to Milzer at Michael Reese Hospital,has no effect on the course of experi­mental poliomyelitis in mice. Experi­mental studies by others have shownthat ACTH does not prevent the en­cephalomyelitis virus from passing theblood-brain barrier.Experimental studies by Glaser andassociates from Washington Universityshow that ACTH and cortisone did notinfluence the course of experimentalpneumonia (pneumococcal and strepto­coccal) in the rat. Thomas and associ­ates from the University of Minnesota,however, have shown that treatment ofrabbits with large daily doses of corti­sone (Merck) prior to and during thecourse of intradermal infection withGroup A hemolytic streptococcus in­creased greatly the susceptibility. to in­fection resulting in death in the majorityof treated animals compared to the un­treated ones. Extensive myocardial in-'flammatory reactions and renal lesionswere noted in the treated animals.Germuth and associates from the Na­tional Institutes of Health foundin 'rab­bits that cortisone and ACTH suppressedantibody formation to subcutaneous in­jections of purified egg albumin. Dr.Walter Hawk of the University of Chi­cago has shown that there is essentiallyno difference in the rate of developmentor height of antibody levels to killedpneumococci when injected into ACTHtreated mice compared to untreated am­mals. Creditor and associates from Co­lumbia University have demonstratedthat ACTH and cortisone inhibitedwound-healing in man and animals bysuppressing the inflammatory and fibrot­ic reaction. Thomas and associates fromTulane University School of Medicinefound that hemorrhagic skin lesions can.be produced by intradermal meningocc>cus toxin in rabbits following treatment·with ACTH and cortisone. Presumablythe suppression of the local inflammatoryfreaction increases the vulnerability 0MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 5:in tissue to the primary damaging.operty of the toxin.In summary, there is no experimentalridence to date to indicate that ACTHid cortisone influence favorably acutefections of virus and bacterial origin inan and experimental animals. Becauseley suppress the inflammatory reaction,ound-healing, and possibly antibody-oduction, ACTH and cortisone may! deleterious and render the individualore susceptible to the invading organ­m in acute infections.The Effects of Adrenaltlaterials on Allergic StatesBy ROBERT H. EBERTDepartment of MedicineAlthough the empirical clinical trial: ACTH and cortisone in allergic dis­ises was inevitable, certain evidenceid accumulated during the past quar­r-century which suggested that theseimpounds would have a profound effectmodifying the hypersensitive state. Itas known, for example, that the adre­alectomized animal was far more sensi­ve to the toxic effects of histamine thanie intact animal. It was suspected thatie anterior pituitary and adrenal cortexlayed a role in antibody formation, and,though the evidence remains contra­ictory, this thesis stimulated impor­mt experimental work. The eosinopeniahich followed adequate ACTH dosageI persons with intact adrenals suggestediat allergic disease accompanied byisinophlia might be affected. And, fi­ally, the demonstration that the adre­alectomized animal was more sensitivel amyphylactoid shock led Selye in 1944l propose his thesis that there was a pathogenic relationship between the ad­renal cortex and the allergic, rheyma­toid, and collogen diseases.There is no question today that ACTHand cortisone in adequate doses mayhave a dramatic and favorable effect onsuch allergic diseases as bronchial asth­ma, hay fever, serum sickness, exfolia­tive dermatitis, and Loeffler's syndrome.The most extensive clinical trials havebeen made in patients with bronchialasthma both intrinsic and extrinsic. Themajority of these patients show a rapidimprovement with either drug after 4-36 hours, although complete relief maynot be obtained for 2-7 days. There isobjective as well as subjective evidenceof improvement with increase in vitalcapacity and maximum breathing capac­ity and the disappearance of physicalfindings such as rhonchi and prolongedexpiration. In some cases there has beenrelief of symptoms for as long as a monthafter therapy is stopped, while othersshow a prompt return of symptoms 2-3days after therapy is ended.Clinical studies to date have been pri­marily investigative, and it is too earlyto define the indications for treatment.It must be remembered that these com­pounds have profound metabolic effectsand that their usefulness will of necessitybe limited to the more serious allergicmanifestations.The mode of action of ACTH and cor­tisone remains unsolved. It is hoped thatfurther study may lead to a fuller under­standing of the mechanism of allergicdiseases and that this in turn may pavethe way for the discovery of drugs withlike actions on the hypersensitive statebut without the unpleasant metabolicside effects. The Effects of ACTH onUlcerative Colitis and OtherGastrointestinal DiseasesBy JOSEPH B. KIRSNERDepartment of MedicineThis abstract is a progress report onthe use of ACTH and cortisone in twentypatients. ACTH alone has been adminis­tered under controlled conditions to four­teen patients with chronic ulcerative co­litis and to one patient each with exten­sive regional enteritis and benign gastriculcer. Twelve individuals with ulcerativecolitis were greatly benefited. The im­provement was sustained in five casesafter discontinuance of ACTH. The dis­ease recurred partially in three patientsand completely in four. The remainingtwo patients manifested slight improve­ment; one was critically ill and died ofperforation of the colon and peritonitis;treatment in the second case is handi­capped by serious emotional problems.The one patient with regional enteritiswas markedly improved clinically, butsymptoms recurred subsequently. Thepatient with gastric ulcer was not bene­fited.Cortisone was administered to fourpatients with chronic ulcerative colitis;clinical improvement was marked in twoand slight in one. Symptoms promptlysubsided in the fourth case, but a recur­rence subsequently was unaffected by asecond course of cortisone. In general,the clinical and chemical effects of corti­sone were less pronounced than thoseinduced by ACTH. Clinical evidences ofimprovement included a decrease in tem­perature and pulse rate, and less fre-[Continued on p. 10]University Clinics GuildElects New OfficersThe Guild is launched on its cus­imary active and useful life with a new!t of officers. For 1950-51 they will be:MRS. C. HOWARD HATCHER, ChairmanMRS. WILLIAM BURROWS, Vice-ChairmanMRS. DONALD CASSELS, Vice-ChairmanMRS. JOSEPH KIRSNER, SecretaryMRS. EDWARD WOODWARD, TreasurerIn addition, the following people haveeen named as Committee Chairmen:MRS. D. M. BERGENSTAL, MendingMRS. J. R. BLAYNEY, MembershipMRS. D. E. CASSELS, ProgramMRS. M. EDWARD DAVIS, SocialMRS. D. L. HARRIS, BridgeMRS. A. T. KENYON, HospitalityThe monthy publication, Inside lnior­otion, will continue under the compe­nt editorship of Joyce Cannon (Mrs.lui R.), Claire Landau (Mrs. Richard), and Florence Miller (Mrs. C.. aillip). Television In GoldblattTo Be In ColorContracts have been signed with theRemington Rand Company and the Co­lumbia Broadcasting System for instal­lation of color television in the GoldblattHospital.Plans to instal a television camera inthe operating room in Goldblatt, withcables running to a screen in the con­ference room, were announced in theFebruary issue of Inside Information.The decision to use color in place ofblack and white caused considerable de­lay, but now installation has been prom­ised for around the first of the year. Atthat time, the only other hospital whichwill have a similar television for teachingpurposes will be at the University ofKansas.The total cost will be $30,000. As theNathan Goldblatt Society had given the$20,000 necessary for the black-and­white television, they agreed to raise theadditional sum.This society has also given $15,000 forthe installation of special X-ray equip- ment which will enable the surgeon tomake X-ray diagnoses in the operatingroom. Heretofore, it has been necessaryto interrupt the operation and take thepatient to the X-ray equipment on thefifth floor.In jRtmoriami{ennttb lLouis :Wurt, JNJ9.Kenneth Louis Burt, '35, ofKalamazoo, Michigan, passedaway July 2, 1950, aged forty­nine years, of myocardial in­farction. He formerly was aresident in pathology at Michi­gan State Sanatorium in Howelland for many years was affili­ated with St. Vincent's Hospitalin Erie, Pennsylvania. Dr. Burtwas a member of the Societyof American Bacteriologists,American Society of ClinicalPathologists, American Collegeof Chest Physicians, and Amer­ican Trudeau Society.6 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINFACULTY NEWSDr. William E. Adams has been re-electedtreasurer of the American Association forThoracic Surgery and treasurer of the Chi­cago Surgical Society. His presidential ad­dress to the Chicago Pathological Societydealt with "Congenital Cystic Malformationof the Lung."Dr. W. C. Allee left the University inSeptember to assume the chairmanship ofthe Department of Zoology at the Univer­sity of Florida in Gainesville. He had reachedthe age of University retirement after thirty­eight years of association with the Depart­ment of Zoology. In August he was honoredby a dinner given by the Department ofZoology and other friends. Dr. Orlando Parkof Northwestern University presented himwith a bound volume of letters from hisformer doctorate students.Drs. Alf Alving, Anton J. Carlson,Ralph W. Gerard, and Patrick DavidWall attended the International Physiologi­cal Congress in Copenhagen in August. Dr.Carlson also attended the International Con­gress of Gerontology at Liege, Belgium, inJuly, and Dr. Wall took part in the Inter­national Congress of Anatomy at Oxford.Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Bachmeyer visitedmedical institutions in Great Britain, Nor­way, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, and Bel­gium this summer. In October Dr. Bach­meyer was elected president of the Associ­ation of American Medical Colleges.Dr. Percival Bailey has been re-electedchairman designate of the professorial fac­ulty of the University of Illinois ChicagoProfessional Colleges for 1950-51. Dr. CarlPfeiffer, professor and chairman of the De­partment of Pharmacology, was elected sec­retary.Dr. E. S. Guzman Barron of the Depart­ment of Medicine presented a paper on "TheEffect of Ionizing Radiation on Some Sub­stances of Biological Importance" at theSymposium on Radiobiology that was or­ganized by the National Research Counciland held at Oberlin during June. Dr. Barronspent the remainder of the summer at theMarine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole,where he worked with four assistants onproblems connected with the mechanism ofionizing radiations and on comparative bio­chemistry.Dr. George W. Bartelmez has joined thestaff of the Carnegie Foundation at Balti­more.Dr. Emmet B. Bay, vice-president of theChicago Heart Association, has been electedto the board of directors of the AmericanHeart Association; he has been made amember of the Association of American Phy­sicians; and he is vice-president of the Cen­tral Interurban Clinical Club, a club whosemembers are chosen from departments ofinternal medicine in midwestern schools. Dr.Wright Adams is a newly elected memberof the club.Dr. William G. Beadenkopf left TheClinics in September to spend a year at­tending the School of Hygiene and PublicHealth at Johns Hopkins University.Dr. William Bloom began the annual falllecture series at the Chicago Medical Schoolon October II with a talk on "The Genesisof the Blood Cells." Dr. Michael Bonfiglio of the Departmentof Surgery has resigned to accept a positionat Iowa State College at Ames.Dr. Henry W. Brosin left for Europe inAugust. He was one of fourteen specialistsselected by the Surgeon General for partici­pation in the European Command in theMedical Department's Overseas ConsultantProgram.Drs. Thomas Brower and C. HowardHatcher presented a paper on "NeuropathicArthropathy in Diabetic Patients" beforethe Chicago Orthopedic Society in October.Highlights in the round-the-world sum­mer trip of Dr. and Mrs. E. V. L. Brownwere visits in Honolulu, Tokyo, Bangkok,Hong Kong, Istanbul, and London.Dr. Ralph Buchsbaum, Research Associ­ate in Zoology, has joined the staff of theUniversity of Pittsburgh as professor of Zo-ology. .Dr. Edward H. Camp '39, joined theNorburn Hospital and Clinic staff at Ashe­ville, North Carolina, in July.Dr. Paul Cannon was one of the guestspeakers at the annual fall Clinical Confer­ence of the Kansas City Southwest ClinicalSociety. His address: "Some Recent Ad­vances in Parenteral Alimentation."Dr. J. W. J. Carpender attended theInternational Congress of Radiology in Lon­don this summer as official representativeof the University of Chicago and then touredvarious European radiology centers.On September 14, Dr. Lowell T. Cogges­hall spoke on "The Common Cold" in aweekly series of radio broadcasts, "YourDoctor Speaks," produced by the ChicagoMedical and Illinois State Medical societiesin co-operation with FM Station WFJL,Chicago. In October he addressed the Minne­sota Alumni Foundation on "Scholarship inMedicine" and the American Cancer Societyin New York on "Institution Grants."Dr. Merle Coulter is on a committee ofthe Association of American Medical Col­leges dealing with problems of premedicaleducation.Dr. M. Edward Davis is president-electof the Chicago Gynecological Society. InJune he participated in the meeting of theWisconsin State Bureau of Maternal andChild Health in Milwaukee.Dr. William J. Dieckmann took part inthe second televised postgraduate course inobstetrics and gynecology presented by theStritch Medical School at Lewis MemorialMaternity Hospital in September.Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt has been madea corresponding member of the Lyons Sur­gical Society, Lyons, France, and an honor­ary member of the French Academy of Sur­gery of Paris. He has recently been namedto the National Academy of Sciences inWashington, D.C. At the same time, Dr.Willard Libby, Professor of Chemistry, andDr. Gerard P. Kuiper, Professor of As­tronomy, were also elected. The Univer­sity of Chicago ranks third among all uni­versities in the number elected to the Na­tional Academy, as thirty-three from thisinstitution have been named to this group.Professors James Franck and Hans Gaf­fron presented papers at the meeting of theSociety of Experimental Biology held at the University of Sheffield, England, during 1week of July 3.Dr. E. M. K. Geiling addressed the Anual Scientific Assembly of the Medical �ciety of the District of Columbia in OCIber. His presentation was entitled "Bios)thesis and Pharmacology of Radioact:Digitalis and Other Important Drugs."Fifty students and members of the stof Physiology gave a dinner at the Quarangle Club in October for Dr. RalGerard in honor of his fiftieth birthd:Dr. Alfred Emerson spoke, and the studeigave Dr. Gerard a humidor. In May, IGerard spoke on "Physiologic Bases of Ihavior" at the Veterans Hospital, DowmIllinois.Dr. Horace M. Gezon '49, is now s1tioned in the Middle East with the UNavy.Dr. and Mrs. Wendell Harrison tookmonth's cruise to Buenos Aires this summDr. Howard Hatcher performed surgeand held consultations at the Mount Ed!comb Hospital in Sitka, Alaska, this SUImer at the request of the Alaska NatiService. .Dr. H. Close Hesseltine was guest speaer at the State University of Iowa MeditAlumni Reunion in Iowa City in June.Dr. Charles B. Huggins attended tConference on Cancer in London in Juand then participated in the InternatiorCancer Conference in Paris.Dr. Leon Jacobson participated in tCancer Conference in Paris, the Radiolo:Congress in London, and a Hematology Sciety meeting at Cambridge this sumrmFollowing speaking engagements in tlScandina vian countries, he attended tlmeetings of the Atomic Energy Commissirin London before returning to Chicagothe end of October.Drs. Allan Kenyon and Richard Landapresented papers before the Laurentian Homone Conference in Franconia, New Ham]shire, in September. 'Drs. Heinz Kohut and Adrian VandlVeer have entered private practice in PS)chiatry. . , "Dr. -Raymond Lanier has been appointeprofessor of radiology and chief of the DIpartment of Radiology at the University IColorado.Dr. Geraldine Light has been re-electetreasurer of the Illinois Society of Anethesiologists.Dr. John Lindsay has been honored belection to membership in the Collegium OtcRhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum, ainternational organization of otorhinolarytgologists, the membership of whieh is lirrited to a small number from each countnDr. Lindsay was elected secretary-treasunof the American Otological Society, Inc. Hspoke on "Miniere's Syndrome" before thCanadian Medical Association in Halifax 0June 22.Dr. C. Phillip Miller was elected to thCouncil of the Association of American Ph}sieians last spring.Dr. Lester D. Odell has been appointeprofessor and head of the DepartmentvObstetrics and Gynecology at the Universltof Nebraska.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 7Dr. Walter L. Palmer was elected chair­Ian of the Section on Internal Medicine ofre American Medical Association. He waslest speaker before the State Medical So­ety of Montana in July.Dr. Pierre Perret of Lausanne terminated5 year of postgraduate study in the United:ates and returned to Switzerland in July.e spent six months in ENT at The Clinics.Dr. Francis Phillips and family are nowcated in Bartlett, Alaska, where he is medi­II director and chief thoracic surgeon of theiward Sanatorium. He spoke on "Chestirgery" at the monthly meeting of thenchorage Medical Society in June.Dr. Theodore Rasmussen of the Depart­ent of Surgery has been elected to mem­irship in the American Neurological Asso­ation and has been appointed to the Sub­.mmittee on Neurosurgery of the Nationalesearch Council.Dr. Henry T. Ricketts is a member ofe Executive Committee of the Chicagoiciety of Internal Medicine. He addressede Champaign County Medical Society re­ntly on "The Newer Concepts in the Eti­ogy and Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus."Dr. O. H. Robertson was named vice­'esident of the Association of Americaniysicians at their sixty-third annual meet­g.Pathology in General Surgery, a 58I-pageilurne written by Dr. Paul Schafer, hasst been published by The University ofhicago Press. The book was prepared whenr. Schafer, now professor and chairmanthe Department of Surgery of the Uni­.rsity of Kansas, was chief resident in sur­ryat The Clinics. He has just returnedom Japan, where he served as a membera medical mission to that country.Dr. H. P. G. Seckel spent April to Octo­,r at the University of Frankfurt. In July, participated in the Sixth Internationalongress of Pediatrics at Zurich.Dr. David Slight has been elected presi­.nt of the South Side Branch of the Chi­go Medical Society.Dr. Harold C. Steffee, who has been onave from the Department of Pathology,IS resigned to accept a residency in Pa­ology at the New Orleans Marine Hos­tal.Dr. Clarence Walton has joined theirle Hospital Clinic, Urbana.Dr. William O. Webster '43, plans toin the staff of the Fargo Clinic, Fargo,orth Dakota.Dr. Paul Weiss of the Department ofiology was visiting professor and Timothyopkins Lecturer at the Hopkins Marineation, Pacific Grove, California, for thest half of the summer quarter.Dr. Joseph Wepman spent a vacation inexico in June. His book on aphasia is soonbe published.Drs. Paul Woolf, Cape Girardeau, andrry Gans, Cleveland, attending staffount Sinai Hospital, were visitors to Theinics in May.Dr: Sewall Wright of the DepartmentZoology delivered the Galton Lecture at! University of London on' June 14.REMEMBER TOPAY YOUR DUES MEETINGSApril. At the American Surgical Associ­ation meeting, Colorado Springs, Dr. LesterR. Dragstedt spoke on "Quantitative Stud­ies on the Mechanism of Gastric Secretionin Health and Disease," Dr. William Adamson "Pulmonary Arteriovenous Fistula," Dr.Hilger P. Jenkins on "Venous MesentericThrombosis," and Dr. John M. Beal, '41,on "Resection of the Auricular Appendage."Others present include Drs. Jay Bartlett' 43,Dewey Bisgard, Bernard and Mia Char­bon, Dwight Clark, George M. Curtis,Everett Evans, ']i, Egbert Fell '31, HarryFisher, '45, James Fritz '42, Henry Har­kins, Harold Haymond, Frederick Kredel,H. Livingstone, Dallas B. Phemister, TerryF. Rhoads, Eugene Wiege '38, and T. Ras­mussen, who also attended the meeting ofthe Harvey Cushing Society.Dr. Robert Ebert presented a film on"In Vivo Studies Using the Rabbit-EarChamber Technique" at the meeting of theAmerican Association for Thoracic Surgeryin Denver. Others participating in thesemeetings include, besides many of thosementioned above, Drs. William Barclay,Robert Block, Ralph Carlson '45, LeffieCarlton, Byron Evans, Karl Klassen '35,Saul Mackler '37, Douglas Morton, Fran­cis Phillips, Richard Rasmussen '38, PaulSchafer, and William Tuttle ']I.May. In New York City Dr. W. J. Dieck­mann attended a conference on the Classi­fication of Toxemias of Pregnancy, Dr. M. E.Davis spoke before the National Confer­ence of the American Committee on Ma­ternal Welfare, and Dr. Edith Potter pre­sented a paper before the International Con­gress of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr.Clayton Loosli participated in the FirstNational Conference on Air Pollution in,Washington, D.C., and Dr. A. C. Krauseattended the meetings of the American Oph­thalmological Society in Hot Springs, Vir­ginia.Among the speakers at the TwentiethAnniversary Celebration of the Tri-StateHospital Assembly in Chicago were J. MiloAnderson, president of the Indiana Hos­pital Association, Ray E. Brown, "WhatMakes the Hospital Volunteer Indispensa­ble," Huberta Livingstone, "Safety Meas­ures in Oxygen Therapy," Marie Neher,participating in a discussion on "ThriftSavers in I 95o-Better Patient Care atLower Costs," and Frank Proudfoot, dis­cussion leader on "Oxygen and Carbon Di­oxide Corrosion in Power Plants." Speakingat the Illinois State Medical Society meet­ings in Springfield were W. E. Anspach on"Aids and Pitfalls in Radiology in Children,"F. Blonek on "Roentgenology in Obstetri­cal Patients," O. C. Julian on "Indicationsand Dangers of Anticoagulant Therapy inSurgery," and C. G. Loosli on "The NewerAntibiotics."October. At the Thirty-sixth Annual Clini­cal Congress of the American College ofSurgeons in Boston were Drs. W. E. Adams,Sam Banks, Emmet Bay, Ralph Carlson,Bernard Charbon, Harmia Charbon,George Curtis, W. H. Fishman, PhilipGlotzer, J. T. Grayhack, K. S. Grimson,Hilger P. Jenkins, Herbert Johnson, A.Kolin, Henry Lemon, W. M. Newman,Joseph Ransohoff, William Sweet, C. G.Thomas, Jr., Howard Reiser, and A. EarlWalker. Dr. Dallas B. Phemister spokeon "Bone-Graft Surgery in the Treatmentof Nonunion of Fractures of the Neck of the, Femur" at a meeting of the ChicagoSociety of Industrial Medicine and Surgery.Dr. Harold Schuknecht spoke on "Deaf­ness Following Blows to the Head" at theAcademy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryn­gology in Chicago.The Chicago Medical Society held post­graduate courses on diseases of the gastro­intestinal tract, liver, and pancreas and ondiseases of the heart, kidney, and bloodvessels. In the former meetings Drs. HenryRicketts and Lowell Coggeshall presidedat some sessions, Dr. Lester Dragstedt dis­cussed "Recent Developments in Our Knowl­edge of the Physiology of Gastric Secretion,"and Dr. J. B. Kirsner spoke on the "Roleof Gastroscopy in Diagnosis of Gastric Dis­ease." In the second course Dr. WrightAdams discussed '''The Role of Electro­cardiography in Medicine," Dr. WilliamAdams spoke on "The Present Status ofSurgical Management of Congenital Lesionsof the Heart and Great Vessels," Dr. EmmetBay discussed "The Treatment of Dissemi­nated Lupus Erythematosis with ACTH,"and Dr. Albert Dorfman presented the"Effect of ACTH on Rheumatic Fever."November. Speakers at the InternationalMedical Assembly of the Interstate Post­graduate Medical Association of NorthAmerica at the Stevens Hotel in Chicagowere Dr. Wright Adams, "The MedicalAspects of Hypertension"; Dr. MelvinKnisely, chairman of the Department ofAnatomy, Medical College of the State ofSouth Carolina, "Sludged Blood"; and Dr.Lester Dragstedt on "Gastric Vagotomy inthe Treatment of Peptic Ulcer."PROMOTIONSMerlin S. Betgdoll to Associate Pro­fessor of Biochemistry and Associate Pro­fessor and Biochemist in the Food ResearchInstitute from July I.Konrad E. Bloch to Professor in Bio­chemistry and in the Institute of Radio­biology and Biophysics from July I.William Doyle to Professor of Anatomy,effective July I.Dorothy Price to Associate Professor ofZoology from July I.Julian M. Tobias to Associate Professorof Physiology from July I.MARRIAGESMr. John Edward Farrior-Dr. Lillie Cut­ler Walker. January 28.Dr. James L. Frey-Natalie Elizabeth Mat­tern. May 20.H. Wells Kilbourne-Dr. Christine The­len. May 23.Dr. Norman Jesberg-Winifred EdithPlumb. May 27.Dr. Philip Glotzer-Marcia Rosenstein.June.Dr. James Ahern-Mary Fleener. June 3.Dr. Max E. Griffin-Frances Rachkaitis.June 10.Dr. Angelo Creticos-Anastasia Majar­kais. June I I.Dr. William Newman-Martha Munday.June 25.Dr. Duval B. Jaros-R. Mary Holmes.August 12.Dr. Charles Grover Gabelman, Jr.-GeneMarie Hall. August 26.8 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINALUMNI NEWS'29. Isee Lee Connell of Jacksonville,Florida, writes that he was retired fromthe Army because of service-incurred bi­lateral cataracts. Early August, 1949, oper­ations resulted in vision 20/10 bilateral. Heattended the Lancaster Course in Ophthal­mology this summer.'33. John Van Prohaska has been electedpresident of the Jackson Park Branch ofthe Chicago Medical Society.Wendell M. Willett is an associate indermatology at the George Washington Uni­versity Medical School and is practicingdermatology in Washington, D.C.'34. Sara E. Branham (National Instituteof Health) gave the commencement addressat Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia. Atthat time she received the Alumni Awardfor outstanding achievement, the first timethe award was made.'35. Dell Henry wrote that she was illat the time of the Annual Banquet. Wehope she has completely recovered.Recent visitors to The Clinics includeDavid Burnstine, '36, who is in generalpractice in Sterling, Illinois; David Pan­kratz, '38, dean of the University of Missis­sippi Medical School, accompanied by thegovernor of Mississippi and other state offi­cials; Jacob J. Zuidema '44, of Greeley,Colorado; T. G. Harward '45, who wasregistered for postgraduate work in theCook County Graduate College of Medi­cine; Louis S. Houston, instructor in pa­thology at Baylor University, College ofMedicine; C. Frederick Kittle of the De­partment of Surgery, University of KansasMedical School; Paul Russell' 48, assistantresident in surgery at Massachusetts Gen­eral Hospital, Boston; J. Stephen Alex­ander of Crawfordsville, Indiana; WilliamFeldman of Huntington Park, California;and F. Stuart Ryerson of Detroit.'36. F. M. Petkevich is doing radiobiologyin Great Falls, Montana, and writes thatWilliam Sullers, formerly of The Clinics,is practicing surgery there.Joseph Post is doing investigative workon the liver, is consultant in medicine atVeterans Hospital, Bronx, is an assistant pro­fessor of clinical medicine at New YorkUniversity College of Medicine, and doesprivate practice in internal medicine atLenox Hill Hospital.'38. Charlotte G. Babcock has beenelected a councilor of the Illinois Psychi­atric Society.Ralph P. Christensen writes that he ispracticing, mostly obstetrics and gynecology,in Eugene, Oregon, and that he has twochildren, a prewar girl and a postwar boy.Merton Gill is assistant professor of psy­chiatry at Yale Medical School as of July I,1950.Charles Kligerman, Heinz Kohut, andAlan Robertson '44, have entered privatepractice in psychiatry. Others in privatepractice are Dale C. Hager, Beaumont,Texas; John Henry Heinen '4I, Chicago;and William F. Renner' 42, Baltimore. Dr.Heinen is physician for the InternationalHarvester Company. '39. Syd Edwards and Harry Gifford,roommates in medical school, had a reunionin Los Angeles in April. Syd is doing anes­thesia in New Jersey; Harry, general surgeryin Los Angeles.'40. James D. Majarakis, instructor insurgery at the University of Illinois, hasbeen appointed executive officer of the 427thGeneral Hospital. This is a r.ooo-bed U,S.Army reserve unit which is sponsored bythe University of Illinois.Roger S. Morris, Jr., has returned to TheClinics as instructor in the Department ofMedicine. He is in charge of a recentlyestablished clinic for follow-up studies andcare of advanced carcinoma cases referredfrom various clinics.'4I. William B. Neal, research associatein surgery, was called into active duty withthe Navy in August and is now stationedat the U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, Cali­fornia.'42. Harvey Blank writes that he was re­cently appointed assistant professor of der­matology, University of Pennsylvania Medi­cal School, and is dermatologist to the Chil­dren's Hospital of Philadelphia. He visitedAmerican Army installations in Europe asconsultant to the Surgeon General. As a con­sultant to the Institute of Nuclear Studies,Oak Ridge, Dr. Blank has been seeing Mar­shall Brucer, who heads the Medical Divi­sion. He reminisced with cardiologist AlbertFricke and psychiatrist Paul Gray andagreed that medical education at the Uni­versity of Chicago is tops!Robert T. Stormont, secretary of theCouncil on Pharmacy and Chemistry of theAmerican Medical Association, spoke on"Chemistry and Medicine," over FM StationWFJL on September 21.,44. John W. Karn has recently restrictedhis practice to anesthesiology at St. Joseph'sHospital, South Bend, Indiana.Jacob Zuidema is now the otolaryngolo­gist at the Greeley Clinic in Colorado. Hepassed the Colorado State Board examina­tions. Other Chicago members of the GreeleyClinic are Theodore Heinz and RobertPorter ']I, internists; John Darst' 34, ob­stetrician and gynecologist; and EugeneWiege '38, surgeon., 45· Marne Cataldo was a recent patientat The Clinics.Loren T. DeWind is resident at the Ala­meda County Hospital in Oakland.Harry W. Fischer began his third yearof assistant residency in surgery at BarnesHospital, St. Louis, in July.C. Frederick Kittle was selected by thedepartment of surgery at the University ofKansas to receive the clinical fellowship of$3,600 awarded to that department by theAmerican Cancer Society, Inc. He will beunder the direction of Dr. Paul Schafer.Dr. Kittle is spending three months at thenew hospital at Oak Ridge as surgical resi­dent. He is on leave of absence from theUniversity of Kansas Medical Center.Ruth L. Nicholson announced her en­gagement to Lesli Fullard-Leo of Hawaiiand Hollywood this summer. L. B. Thomas is a fellow in pathohat the University of Minnesota.H. E. van Reken is completing his fyear in the Army Medical Corps. At preshe is "loaned" to the Air Force and is 1tioned at Wright Patterson AFB, whereis the attending surgeon, chief of the 0patient department. He is married andthree children.'46. John W. Cashman is being traf�rred from U.S. Marine Hospital, Cleland, to the U.S. Marine Hospital in Sealfor the purpose of a medical residency.Edward R. Munnell has an assistant 5gical residency at Henry Ford Hospital.'47,· Max E. Griffin is. now chief residat the Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio,Lieut. (j.g.) Hal T. Hurn has been,pointed an instructor in psychiatry. atElizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.under the Navy's graduate training pgram. He has been serving in the Nahospital in Coco Solo, Canal Zone.Capt. Charles J. Ruth has written seveinteresting letters to the Alumni AssociattHe is on his way to Korea and would appciate hearing from friends and classmatAddress: Capt. Charles J. Ruth, 059646, (Co. jrd Med. Bu. jrd Div., APO 468 (PM, San Francisco, California.Lieut. (j.g.) William G. Smith wrifrom the National Naval Medical CentBethesda, where he has been engaged in noclinical research in the Navy Medical COlReserve since the spring of 1949., 48. Clement E. Brooke is chief of clinkinvestigation at Camp Dietrick, Frederi:Maryland.Winslow G. Fox took three weeks ,this summer, after a year's work, to traiaround the island of Puerto Rico photgraphing in Kodachrome. He has now begiwork on clinics up in the hills where malpeople have never seen a doctor.Philip Glotzer is now a Harvard Rsearch Fellow in Surgery working at tlBeth Israel Hospital, Boston.'49. Sherwood P. Miller is interning.Santa' Clara County Hospital with Thedore Hooker, who will soon go into tlNavy. Dr. Miller will take his residencySanta Barbara.Harold C. StefJee bas accepted a resdency in Pathology at the New OrleaiMarine Hospital.James M. Watson is. taking a gener.surgical residency at the Doctor's HospitaSeattle, next year.School of Medicine ReceiveNew Scholarship FundThe University of Chicago Medical Scho:has received a $12,000 scholarship fund Imemory of the late Dr. Henry R. Boettchesurgeon, who was a member of the staff (Chicago's Englewood Hospital and a prefessor at Rush Medical College. Lawrence:Sonkin, Robert S. Goldsmith, and FrankliD. Sidell are the recipients of the fir:scholarships granted.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 9uckhardt-[Continued from p. 1]Immediately following World War I,r. Carlson and Dr. Luckhardt embarkedI a series of experimental studies on thesceral sensory nervous system that, fortensity of application and continuousbor in the laboratory, I have never seenrpassed. These studies proved to be ofndamental importance in analyzing themptoms of many different kinds of ab­.minal diseases.When I joined the Departmerft ofiysiology at the University of Chicagoa colleague of Dr. Luckhardt, he wasliking on the physiology of the para­yroid glands and on the nature of para­yroid tetany. As a result of this work,became possible for the first time toep experimental animals alive follow­g 'complete' removal' of the "parathy­id glands and to prevent and relieverathyroid tetany, which customarilyllowed this operation. This importantirk provided a method of treatmentllowing parathyroid gland removal orjury that proved applicable to mand remains today the most importantethod of treatment. An amusing inci­nt occurred when Dr. Luckhardt pre­nted these studies before the Chicagoiciety of Internal Medicine. Philiposenbloom was his assistant in the ex­rimental studies and undertook to pre­.re the slides that Dr. Luckhardt wasuse for his lecture. Instead of num­ring the animals I, 2, 3, and 4, as wasstomary, Philip used the names of his.rious girl friends. The audience wasghly diverted at the lecture when thedes revealed that Grace, Blanche,ose, Susie, etc" were relieved of theirnvulsions, muscular twitchings, andemors by various doses of calcium lac­te mixed with dog food,Although from the scientific stand­lint not his greatest contribution, thescovery of the anesthetic propertiesethylene gas and the introduction ofhylene gas as an anesthetic in surgicalactice is probably Arno's greatest con­ibution to human welfare. The storythis classical research has been so fre­rently told that it need not be repeatedre. When I reflect on the precautionsat we now employ to protect the oper­ing-room personnel against the explo­,e hazards of anesthetic gasses andalize that Arno and his associate, Dr.rrter, were the first to be anesthetized, ethylene, and this by the hands of myother, Dr. Carl Dragstedt, whose ex­rience at that time as an anesthetistIS meager indeed, I am reminded ofe first flight across the Atlantic bylarles Lindbergh in that small plane,the Spirit of St. Louis," which now re­-ses in the National Museum in Wash-5ton. Lindbergh's flight was probably·t more courageous than the exploit of'no and Carter, and probably not sooductive of good for mankind. RESIDENT STAFF NEWSMichinosuke Amano has arrived fromJapan for one year of postgraduate trainingin anesthesiology at The Clinics under aU.S, Army scholarship.Crawford Campbell, assistant professorof orthopedic surgery at Albany MedicalCollege, spent several days at The Clinicsin August.Leffie Carlton, one-time member of thesurgical resident staff, and now a Tampa,Florida, surgeon, was a June visitor at TheClinics.Ralph A. Goodwin, Jr., has opened anoftice at 33 Court Street, Auburn, Maine,for the practice of ophthalmology.Eric C. Kast is now in private practiceof internal medicine. He is an instructor atStritch School of Medicine, Loyola Univer­sity, and on the staff of Michael Reese Hos­pital. He took his board exams in October.Raymond R. Lanier, formerly a residentin Radiology, has been appointed professorand head of the Department of Radiology atthe University of Colorado in Denver.John C. Murphy, resident in Dermatolo­gy, 1947-49, has been appointed chief of theSection of Dermatology in Lovelace Clinicand Lovelace Foundation for Medical Edu­cation and Research, Albuquerque, NewMexico.Lieut. E. J. Ryan, M,C., is now attachedto the First Mobile Surgical Hospital, APO660, San Francisco, California, near thefiring line in Korea. He sends regards toall his friends.Sidney Steinberg, formerly assistant resi­dent in dermatology and physician in theStudent Health Service, is now in privatepractice in Toronto, Ontario. Hugh E. Stephenson, Jr., is working onthe problem of acute cardiac arrest at NewYork University, Bellevue Medical Center.In connection with this study, he has de­signed a special mobile cardiac resuscitationunit.Samuel T. Thierstein is chairman of theDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecologyat St. Elizabeth Hospital, instructor of ob­stetrics and gynecology, Creighton School ofMedicine, and in private practice in Lincoln,Nebraska.Thomas F. Thornton, Jr., who has beenpracticing surgery in Waterloo, Iowa, hasbeen called into the Navy and has been sta­tioned at Great Lakes since September.Alfonso Topete, chairman of the Depart­ment of Surgery at the University of Guada­lajara, and chief of the Department of Sur­gery, University Hospital, was an Octobervisitor to Chicago. In conjunction with Dr.W, E, Adams he presented a paper at theBoston meeting of the American College ofSurgeons. Dr, Topete has established thefirst surgical research laboratories in Mexico.William Wainwright is a resident in theDepartment of Medicine, St. Luke's Hos­pital, New York City, and visited TheClinics recently.Capt. Glen R. Weygandt writes fromthe 97th General Hospital, APO 757, c/oPostmaster, New York, N.Y. He is locatedin the 700-bed general hospital in Frankfurt,Germany, where he is in charge of anes­thesiology. They have six operating roomsand a r a-bed recovery room, which runstwenty-four hours a day; they averagearound 200 operations and 90--100 deliveriesa month, The blood bank runs twenty-fourhours a day. Glen writes about giving a"Billings cocktail" (three quick pints, fol­lowed by three slow ones [of blood]) to onesoldier who had been hit by a train.All during Dr. Luckhardt's career hehas maintained a most active interest inthe history of science and medicine andhas collected a remarkable number ofearly medical and scientific books. He isable to read the Medieval Latin in whichmany of these books are written becauseof his early classical education in theMonastery of Conception College in Mis­souri, Whereas the rest of us look at thebindings of these ancient books and theartistic decorations of the frontispiece,Arno takes delight in reading them. I canstill remember his pleasure when, in read­ing a book by Descartes, he came acrossthe sentence in Latin concerning someprevious scientific discovery that "thisbroke the ice."Arno, as you relinquish your duties inthe teaching of physiology in the class­rooms and laboratories, it must be agreat satisfaction to you that there goeswith you the love and admiration of somany former students, assistants, andcolleagues. It is their hope that, in theyears to come, you will find still moretime to read and enjoy the library thatyou have collected with such enthusiasm,and with the realization that you haveserved well the University, your students,and all mankind. Recent VisitorsWallace O. Fenn, professor of physiologyat the University of Rochester and formerpresident of the American Physiological So­ciety, discussed "The Ins and Outs of CarbonDioxide" at a Physiology Seminar on JuneIS· Dr. Fenn was here to receive an honor­ary degree from the University at the Juneconvocation,Recent visitors to the Department of Bio­chemistry include Professor F. G. Youngof Cambridge, England, Dr. E. C. Slaterof the Molteno Institute, also of Cambridge,and Dr. J. Murray Luck of Stanford Uni­versity.Recent visitors in the Department of Zo­ology were: Dr. Gunnar Wohlfart, ofStockholm, Sweden, and Dr. Ruth E. M.Bowden, a Rockefeller Traveling Fellow,from the Royal Free Hospital, London. BothDrs, Wohlfart and Bowden were particu­larly interested in neurobiology and tissueculture as carried on by Professor PaulWeiss. Dr. Louis Chedit, from Courrier'sLaboratory in the College de France, anendocrinologist, was here on June 23 con­ferring with Professor Carl R. Moore andDorothy Price in Zoology and Dr. Allan T.Kenyon in the Department of Medicine.A. B. Luckhardt FellowshipThe first recipient of the Arno B. Luck­hardt Fellowship is Frank Liu, an M.S.from the University of Missouri.10 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINScientific Section-[ Continued from p. 5]quently in the sedimentation rate, promptsubsidence of abdominal distress, dimin­ished frequency of bowel movements,and marked increase in appetite and insense of well-being. The proctoscopicappearance of the rectal mucosa did notconsistently correlate with the clinicalstatus; however, evidence of .active dis­ease subsided in those patients mani­festing the greatest improvement. Theroentgen changes of colitis subsided inseveral cases. To date, ACTH and corti­sone appear to be useful adjuncts in themanagement of some patients with ulcer­ative colitis; further studies are in prog­ress.In the new laboratories at the La Ra­bida Jackson Park Sanatarium, Dr. EarlP. Benditt, in association with Drs.Albert Dorfman, Sara Schiller, andKatherine Smull, is carrying on twotypes of investigation. Animal experi­ments are aimed at elucidating the natureof the action of adrenal substances uponthe constitution and reactivity of con­nective tissues. Clinical chemical and ex­perimental observations on the rheu­matic-fever patients under treatmentwith ACTH and cortisone at the Sana­tarium are being made.Under the direction of Drs. HowardHatcher and Mary Sherman in the De­partment of Orthopedics, investigationsare being carried out on the pathologicchanges in certain rare arthri tides treatedwith cortisone or ACTH. They are pri­marily interested in the arthropathywhich frequently accompanies psoriasisand which we believe to be distinctive.They have available considerable patho­logic material obtained from a group ofpatients already under observation andalso a large number of specimens whichcan be used as controls. They will treatas many patients as possible with corti­sone and ACTH for approximately onemonth, or until a definite response is ob­tained. Such metabolic observations asare necessary to check the response willbe made and at the end of the treatmentbiopsy will be repeated and pathologicalexamination of the joint tissue. Simul­taneous observations will be made onany changes in the skin lesions.SAVE YOUR COPIESOFTHE BULLETIN AWARDSPercival Bailey has been named the firstrecipient of the Jacoby Award, presentedby the American Neurological Associationat their recent meeting in Atlantic City forhis studies on the cerebral cortex and nerv­ous pathways within the. brain. This honoris conferred on the member voted to havemade the most outstanding contribution inthe field of neurology during the previousthree years.The American Medical Association goldmedal for original research went to lester R.Dragstedr and his associates for their spe­cial operative technique used in the studyof the secretion of gastric juices. A bronzemedal was awarded to D. E. Clark, O. H.Trippel, G. E. Sheline, and M., C. Moorefor an exhibit on "Radioactive Iodine; ItsUse in Diagnosis and Therapy," .At the annual meeting of the Illinois StateMedical Society in Springfield, May' 23-25,a gold medal was awarded for the exhibiton "Quantitative Studies on' the Mechanismsof Gastric Secretion" presented by lester R.Dragstedt, Edward R. Storer, Harry A.Oberhelman, Jr., and Curtis A. Smith.Carl R. Moore received the 1950 awardand $1,000 for outstanding and meritoriousresearch on the male reproductive tract bythe American Urological Association at theirannual meeting in Washington, D,C., inMay, Dr. Moore gave a paper on "SexualDifferentiation in Vertebrates" in June atthe Centre National de la Recherche Scien­tifique in Paris,In the annual competition by interns andresidents of Chicago hospitals, Harry A.Oberhelman, Jr., '47, won the first prize of$1 So for his presentation on "The Relationof Gastric Secretion to the Cause of Deathin Pyloric Obstruction,"At the annual meeting of the AmericanPharmaceutical Association at Atlantic Cityin May, George M. Curtis, Rush '20, wa'sgiven the annual Iodine Award and $1,000for distinguished research in the pharmacyand chemistry of iodine,J. Garrott Allen received the WarrenTriennial Prize in an international conteston his essay, "Homeostasis, Hemorrhage,and Hemostasis,"Men in the ServiceAlready a good many of The Clinics staffhave been called into the armed services.Marvin Sullivan and Frederick B. Malkin­son, assistants in research in Dermatology,are now in the Navy; George H. Klump­ner, '48, Psychiatry, is in the Army, andDavid Ruml, Medicine, has volunteered forservice in the Air Force,From Surgery, Edward R. Woodward'42, and William B. Neal, '4I, are with th�Navy, probably in Tokyo; Edwin T. longis with the Air Force; and Emmett Ryanis in Japan with the Army,Obstetrics and Gynecology have lost Ed­win C. Turner, Albert G. King, Hanld G.Carstensen, '48, and Albert B. Lc.Incz,, 46-all to the Army,Dr. Horace Gezon, '40, Pediatrics, is inthe Navy,,W� realize that this list is only a be­gmnmg. We shall be glad to have news fromany alumni on active duty, and we shallsend the BULLETIN to all those for whomwe have addresses. Postgraduate Course for thAmerican College ofPhysiciansUnder the chairmanship of Dr. WriglAdams, the faculty of the University 4Chicago School of Medicine conduct!a postgraduate course entitled "CriticProblems in Internal Medicine" for tlAmerican' College of, Physicians. Tlmeetings were held in MI37 throughoithe week of October 23-27 and were wereceived by eighty-five graduate studentBIRTHSDr. and Mrs. Edward R. Munnell-Macia Mary. March 10, 1949.Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Post-David. Jul,18, 1949.Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Jampolis-MarPrior. January 13, 1950.Dr. and Mrs. Frank M. Petkevich-JohMisha. March 3,Dr. and Mrs. T. G. Harward-EugenRees. March 9, •Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Marcovich-s-GaiAnn. March II. .On and Mrs. Edward Horner-Annlouise. March 28.Dr. and Mrs. Richard Yoder-,-WillianRichard. April 3.Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Shapiro-i-DonahAllen. April 29,Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Goodwin-ThomaRalph. May I.Dr. and Mrs. N. Winston Henry-s-AmAllison. May 9.Dr. and Mrs. Richard Hastings-NancyMay 17,Dr. and Mrs. John Kenward-c-johrKevin. May 24,Dr. and Mrs. John Harvey-Sarah Nightingale. May 26, 'Dr. and Mrs. Delbert Bergenstal=-Richard. June 16.Dr. and Mrs. Roger Baker-Susan Lauroence. July 2.Dr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Carlson-MargaretEllen and Patricia Ann. July 8. 'Dr. and Mrs. George Klumper- James.July 9.Dr. and Mrs. Richard Jones-Ruth Les­lie. July 25.Dr. and Mrs. Robert V. Slattery-RobertVincent, Jr. July 28,Dr. and Mrs. Edward Caul-Christo­pher. July 31.Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. lewert-PhilipAllen. August 4.Dr. and Mrs. Milton levine--AvrwnMarc. August II.Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Waldman-StevenI. August II.Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Parks-Dale Alan.August IS.Dr. and Mrs. F. Stuart Ryerson-JanetLeith. September 3.Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Friedman-Cath·erine Ries. September 10.MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETIN 11The Alumni-Faculty Student banquet at the Shoreland Hotel on June 12, 1950San Francisco Luncheon'\ luncheon meeting of the Alumni As­:iation was held in San Francisco at: time of the A.M.A. meetings there'ough the efforts of Dr. A. T. Haerem.rty members attended and were ad­ssed by Drs. Dragstedt and Cogges­II. Dr. Haerem reports that everyone:I a good time and that it was a greatasure to see old friends again.JULLETINf the Alumni Association'he University of Chicago�CHOOL OF MEDICINE·oL.7 AUTUMN 1950 No.1THOMAS WILLIAM LESTER, JR., EditorHUBERTA LIVINGSTONE, Associate EditorM embers of the Editorial Board:HENRY T. RICKETTSCLAYTON G. LOOSLIROBERT H. EBERTJESSIE BURNS MACLEAN, Secretary.ice of yearly subscription [or nonmembers, $1.00;Ice of single copies, 25 cents. It is to be hoped that such meetingswill be regular events at the annualA.M.A. meetings.ANNUAL MEETINGThe following officers, recommendedby the Nominating Committee and votedupon by mailed ballots, were unanimous­ly elected and introduced at the MedicalAlumni Association Annual Meeting onJune 13, 1950:President, DR. JOHN VAN PROHASKA, '34Vice-President, DR. KENNETH O. NELSON,'47Executive Secretary, DR. WILLIAM LESTER,'41Treasurer, DR. LEON O. JACOBSON, '39Council members: DR. JULIUS GINSBERG,3 years; DR. WILLIAM BETHARD, 3 yearsDr. Prohaska graduated from theSchool of Medicine in 1933 and re-ceived his training in the Departmentof Surgery, culminating in his appoint­ment as Chief Resident in 1940. At pres­ent he is Chief Surgeon of Chicago Me­morial Hospital and Associate Professorof Surgery at the University of Illinois.He has ably served as the President ofthe Alumni Association during the yearsof 1937-38 and 1941-44 and as treasurerfrom 1945 to 1950,Dr. Kenneth O. Nelson is a researchfellow at the University of Illinois. He received his M.D. at the University ofChicago in 1947 and interned at TheClinics. He spent the next two years inSurgery at Chicago Memorial Hospital.Dr. Lester was elected last year to theMedical Alumni Council. He is AssistantProfessor of Medicine, and this yearhe has been made Director of StudentHealth.Dr. Jacobson, Associate Professor ofMedicine, has just returned from Europe,where he attended conferences in Lon­don, Cambridge, and Paris. (See "Facul­ty News.") He was president of the As­sociation in 1948-49.Dr. Julius Ginsberg, Rush '31, internedat The Clinics and was resident in Der­matology 1932-36. He has been in pri­vate practice since 1936 except for 1941-45, when he was a major with the Armyin the Philippines. He is consulting phy­sician at Hines Hospital, assistant pro­fessor of dermatology at Northwestern,and a member of the American Board ofDermatology, the American Academy ofDermatologists, and the Chicago Derma­tology Society.Dr. Bethard, Rush '42, interned at St.Luke's in San Francisco and then spentthree years in the Navy. He came backto private practice for a year in Coro­nado, California, and has just returnedto Billings, where he now holds an Amer­ican Cancer Society Fellowship.12 MEDICAL ALUMNI BULLETINASSOCIATION ACTIVITIESMr. Goldblatt AddressesBanquetMr. Maurice Goldblatt gave the prin­cipal address to the graduating class atthe annual Alumni-Faculty Student Ban­quet. He told them that they should begrateful for the good fortune that wastheirs-of being at the right place at theright time with a little knowledge. Dr.Lester R. Dragstedt was toastmaster;Dr. Wright Adams spoke briefly of theproblem of faculty-student relationships,and Dr. Louise Cason, for the students,suggested that if student opinion was de­sired, the skit "Heaven Can Wait" wouldspeak for the 1950 class.Dr. Robert Tschirgi, assistant profes­sor in the Department of Physiology,received the Borden Award in Researchfrom Dr. Coggeshall for his "Studies onthe Isolated Perfused Rat Spinal Cord."Approximately one hundred and fiftypersons attended the banquet, and amongthose from out of the Chicago area wereDrs. M. P. Van den Bosch, Denver, andJoseph Johnson, dean of the Departmentof Physiology at Howard University. DUES AND GIFTSWith this issue of the BULLETIN cards areinclosed calling for payment of annual dues.Our membership is good, and we hope tomake it even better, but the Associationcannot operate by dues alone. We depend,as is proper for an organization such as ours,on the gifts of our more established alumni.Once again physicians are being sent allover the world, and our roster already showsmany changes of station. Your whole­hearted participation at this time will in­sure your maintaining contact with theAlumni Association and providing a firmbasis for expansion in future years.As in the past, we invite all staff andresident members of The Clinics to becomemembers of the Association and to take anactive part in our activities.In This IssueWe wish to thank the editor of Insidelnjormation for permission to publish thestories on the Stewart Trust Fund, theSalaries Suspense Fund, and Televisionwhich appear in this issue. Senior Scientific SessionThe scientific session of the 1950 grauating class was held in Pathology Ion June 13. Many of the papers "reprsen ted original research and were of eceptionally high caliber. Dr. Ebert prsided. The program was:ER�F.ST BEUTLER, "The Influence of Who;Body X-Irradiation on the Susceptibiliof Mice to Infection with Influenza ViruDONALD ROWLEY, "The Effect of Spleneto my on the Production of CirculatiAntibodies"RICHARD BERNARD, "Changes in Glucuroidase Activity during Pregnancy in AlbiiRats"A. KAPPAS, "The Correlation between Coversion Ratios and Protein-bound Iodi:Value in Patients with Various ThyroFunctions"MARVIN GOLDMAN, "Influence of Irradiatiron Schwartzman Reaction"J OH� DUNKLE, "The Use of Radioiodiias a Measure of Thyroid FunctionSalamander Larvae"ROBERT TSCHIRGI, "Studies on the IsolattPerfused Rat Spinal Cord"J AMES SUTHERLAND, "Heparin Extracticfrom Blood of Normal and IrradiateDogs"LAWRENCE SON KIN, "Studies in. Experirnertal Respiratory Infection" (read by tiueAI the speaker's table at the annual Alumni.Faculty Student Banquet, from left to right: Dr. John Van Prohaska, Dr. Basil C. H. Harlley,Dr. Louise Cason, Dr. Wright Adams, Mrs. Brislen, Mr. Maurice Goldblatt, Mrs. Adams, Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt, Mrs. Goldblatt, Dr. AndrewJ. Br isle-n, Mrs. Dragstedt, Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, Mrs. Prohaska, Dr. Robert H. Ebert, and Dr. Nan Warner.