Cornell Alumni News Volume 49, Number 7 November 15, 1946 Price 20 Cents Dawson Catches a Pass from Burns in Yale Game on Schoellkopf Field "It is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found, that is of consequence ' —JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Why some things get better all the time TAKE THE MODERN ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB, for ex- Producing better materials for the use of industry ample. Its parts were born in heat as high as 6,000° F. and the benefit of mankind is the work of Union ... in cold as low as 300° below zero . under crush- Carbide. ing pressure as great as 3,000 pounds per square inch. Basic knowledge and persistent research are re- Only in these extremes of heat, cold and pressure quired, particularly in the fields of science and en- did nature yield the metal tungsten for the shining gineering. 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Volume 49, Number 7 November 15, 1946 Price, 20 Cents CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Entered as second-class matter, Ithaca, N.Y. Published twice a month, except monthly in July, August, and September Subscription price $4 a year that BAL ointment was no more ef- Medical College in New York fective applied directly to the Lewisite burn than if applied to any other part of the skin. If given by hypodermic, it Conducts War Research was even better. Pharmacological \TC7AR research undertaken at the anti-malarial agents, and finally on studies showed that BAL combined * * Medical College in New York the vital question of the chemical with arsenic in any part of the body in conjunction with New York Hos- structure of penicillin. and locked it in an insoluble form pital was described by Dr. Eugene F. "One of the best examples of co- which was harmless. 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Thus a war gas Army, Navy, National Research Coun- standardized burns on the forearms of has led to the discovery of one of the cil, and OSRD]. I shall omit all but a volunteers. Since he was working on most useful of all antidotes. few, selecting arbitrary samples of war gasses that effect the skin, he also Study Penicillin for OSRD general interest. studied BAL, the British Anti-Lewis- "The Department of Medicine was Apparatus Tests Nerves ite that neutralizes that arsenic com- asked by the OSRD committee on "The Department of Anatomy pound, the worst of all war gasses, medical research in 1943 to participate worked on the subject of nerve re- Lewisite. in the study of penicillin. This work generation and our Dean, Dr. Joseph "A project to study the pharma- was assigned to Dr. Walsh McDermott C. Hinsey, with Dr. William A. Geo- cological action of BAL was assigned and his associates. Our clinic was hegan '29, devised an electrical stimu- to the Department of Pharmacology among the first to show the favorable lator which furnished a standardized in the Medical College under Dr. results in the treatment of syphilis. and safe technique for nerve testing McKeen Cattell. There was evidence Other diseases were studied, and also at surgical operations. It has been so useful that the apparatus shop of the Department of Physiology was asked to make more than sixty-five sets of this complicated apparatus. The last five went to Australia and we are working on a rush order of ten more sets for the Navy. "One problem that has attracted a good deal of popular attention was started by Dr. Morton C. Kahn '16 of the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, aided by the Signal Corps of the Army. They amplified the inaudible mating calls of mosquitoes 100 million times until they became audible to the human ear. Recording these horrid squeaks and twitters on discs, they found that the female call would attract males from a considerable distance and we hope that this may lead to their de- struction. Curiously enough, the tre- mendous amplification in sound did not deafen the mosquitoes. MEDICAL COLLEGE FACULTY ALLEVIATE AIR CRASH INJURIES War research on aviation safety was done by (left to right) Professor Eugene F. Du- "Circumstances do not permit me Bois, Physiology, chairman of the National Research Council committee on aviation to describe in any detail the work of medicine Research Associate Hugh DeHaven '18, who initiated the crash injury studies; the Department of Biochemistry un- Professor William A. Geohegan >29, Anatomy, inventor of the Geohegan Inertia Safety der Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud. All of Lock for shoulder harness, now adopted by both Army and Navy Air Forces; and Dean Joseph C. Hinsey of the Medical College, responsible investigator in charge of the their extensive laboratories and re- project for the OSRD committee on medical research, who, with Dr.