Medical School
THE NAVY AND ARMY have unofficially taken over the School, and the commissions are arriving so fast that it begins to look as though the uniform for Commencement Day will not be cap and gown.
John F. Gile M'18, our Trustee and Professor of Clinical Surgery, and Captain Henry L. Heyl, Harvard M'33, our Instructor in Surgery, were speakers at the MidWinter Assembly held at the Dartmouth Club in New York on March 26, and report a most enjoyable reunion of some forty alumni, presided over by President Harry C. Storrs M'10.
Colin C. Stewart III M'24, our Assistant Professor of Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics, attended the April regional meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Philadelphia.
Sven M. Gundersen, Harvard M'29, our Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, has returned recently from a clinical visit at the Mayo Clinic.
Dawson Tyson, Yale M'27, our Assistant Professor of Surgery, was away during March on a clinical visit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, University Hospital at Ann Arbor, and New Haven Hospital.
Radford C. Tanzer, Harvard M'29, our Instructor in Surgery, attended the April meeting of the Section on Military Medicine of the American College of Surgeons at Albany.
John P. Bowler M'17, our Professor of Surgery, and John F. Gile M'18, our Professor of Clinical Surgery, attended the April regional meeting of the American College of Surgeons at Portland.
John Figgis Jewett M'36 writes a most interesting censcissored letter from Fort Gulick, Canal Zone, where he is on the surgical staff under Major Herbert Bergamini, Columbia M'17, at the first Army General Hospital ever set up there. He recently made a jungle malarial survey trip with Herbert C. Clark, Penn M'o6, Chief of the Gorgas Hospital who is studying malarial incidence in areas not under mosquito control; poisonous snake incidence; insect repellents; and relative values of quinine, atabrine, and plasmochin among the native population where the best known Americans are Sears & Roebuck. He wants to run an army obs. case sweepstakes with Clifford Mills M'36.
Charles S. Oliver M'39 was married to Jacqueline Jeffcoat at Trinity Church, Boston, on Valentine's Day. They are living at 2 Allen Place.
Dwight O'Hara M'18, Professor of Preventive Medicine at Tufts, has been appointed Acting Dean there.
William W. Winchester M'40 was married to Elsie Helen Chilman, Rush M'42, of Hoquiam, Washington, at Chicago on February 28. They will live at 1640 West Adams. Ludwig J. Pyrtek M'40 was best man.
Milton M. Lieberthal M'33 has announced Gastro-Enterology and Gastroscopy by appointment at Bridgeport.
Lt. Harry M. Lowd Jr. M.C., U.S.N.R., M'g7, was married to Natalie Varley of Melrose on November 22 at Salem and two days later was somewhere at sea. They came to Hanover in March for their second \honeymoon and we had a reunion at the D.O.C. House. He told us some wonderful stories about the appearance of the volcano Mount Hekla by moonlight, and life on a destroyer.
Alan Leslie M'31 who was dispensing at the Submarine Base at New London, has been transferred to Aviation Medicine at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola.
Jackson Wright M'34 sent us a reprint "Efficacy of Intravenous Sodium Bicarbonate Therapy in the Treatment of Diabetic Ketosis" just before he signed up as Captain in Base Hospital 25, the Cincinnati General unit.
Mary Cook and Seymour Burge M'32 tried to keep their marriage a secret, because they went to Sun Valley on their honeymoon, but we found out about it.
Lt. Ralph W. Hunter, M.C., U.S.N.R., M'32 is apparently somewhere east of New York after an invigorating salt water cruise. Reminded him of the Eleazar in Linekin Bay, no doubt.
That picture in the "Dale Mabry Observer" was just the right touch. J. Ellsworth Cavanagh M'36, is now epauletting the bars d'argent at Tallahassee.
Lt. Harry B. Eisberg, M.C., U.S.N., M' 37 says that he and his semicircular canals have soloed and that he is convinced that aviation has its medical aspects. Ann Ahlquist Eisberg is at Pensacola with him, so now he claims the Swedes are better than the Danes. We say, "Uxorious" as any famous Norse classical scholar would.
Santino F. Lando M'38 has heard that all commissioned officers in the Navy rate side boys. That settled it. Secretary Knox will be taking his pen in hand any day now.
Lt. Corbin Moister, M.C., U.S.N.R., M'38 recently of the M.H.M.H. house staff was ordered to active duty on April 13, and is now stationed at some base somewhere on New Hampshire's far flung sea coast, probably Rye Harbor.
James G. Bennett, Harvard M'39, is Teaching Fellow in Pathology vice Arthur S. Cain, Kansas M'40, who has resigned and withdrawn to Kansas.
.John Hardham M'37 was in town recently and says that he has taken his "final type" physical exam, but that Surgeon General Magee has not yet given him the word.
John C. Lilly M'4o published "The Electrical Capacitance Diaphragm Manometer" in The Review of Scientific Instruments, January 1942. Direct pressure measurements in the arterial blood stream, using a radio frequency, crystal controlled oscillator and pressure-sensitive condenser in the pick-up unit, were made for as long as two hours without clotting.
Major Robert F. Bradish, M.C., U.S.A., M'24 is now in charge at the Port of Embarkation at New Orleans, and writes interestingly of the various activities associated with the installations there.
