Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Department of Physiology Standing (left to right) DUFF, LEFCOE, BORST, FERRIS, FRANK Seated (left to right) MEAD, WHITTENBERGER, AMDUR, BERGLUND W„ AT are the physiological limitations of man under environmental stress, and what are the adaptive mechanisms facilitating human adjustment to stress? Professor J. L. Whittenberger, Head of the Department, and his associates teach the importance of these problems and the significance of the equilibrium-restoring reactions to fatigue and to extremes of temperature and pressure. Studies on circulation and respiration form the major portion of the Department’s research activities. Special emphasis has been placed upon the mechanics of breathing as related to resuscitation, artificial respiration, and the treatment of pulmonary disease; on reactions of the pulmonary circulation to changes in the gaseous environment; and on the completion of confirmatory work on Starling’s law in the intact organism. Special techniques developed in the course of these studies have recently been used to assess the effects of atmospheric pollutants. Irofessor Gordon M. Fair, Head of this Department, will long be remembered for his ability to present the intricacies of water purification and sewage disposal in a style not only lucid but literate. After guiding the students across the waters “too thick to drink and too thin to plow”, Dr. Fair called upon Drs. Moore, Morris and Chang to further elabo¬ rate on the basic principles of environmental sanitation. In addition to teaching, the Department is actively engaged in projects which involve measuring the increase of radioactivity of streams and reservoirs due to products of the atomic age; the use of cation and anion exchange resins for removing chemical warfare agents from water supplies; and the use of quaternary ammonium compounds in aeration processes, a method which holds promise of replacing the time-honored water treatment operations of coagulation and filtration. Department of Sanitary Engineering (Left to right) THOMAS, FAIR, MOORE, MORRIS

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Department of Maternal and Child Health Seated (left to right) VALADIAN, E. P. RICE, STITT, STUART, BURKE Standing (left to right) VARLEY, GRANT, BURROUGHS, R. G. RICE, BUTLER, PYLE From various parts of the U.S.A. and countries as distant as India, students interested in maternal and child health are attracted to this Department. It was founded in 1921 by Richard Smith and has been developed and led since 1928 by Professor H. C. Stuart. The courses cover all aspects of the subject from pregnancy through delivery to ado¬ lescence. Of particular interest is the long-term research project on the processes of normal growth and development in which the Professor and his team have been engaged for many years. Students are able to learn at first hand from some of the data as yet uncompleted and unpublished. The fundamental knowledge gained in this Department and at associated institutions is of universal application and students returning to their respective regions can translate this into the organization of services suitable for local conditions. This department was started in 1942 under the direction of Professor F. J. Stare. Since then he, Dr. Hegsted and others have developed a teaching and research program bal¬ anced between problems of a fundamental scientific nature and those of applied nutrition. The students enjoyed the welcoming party given for them and the tour of the laborato¬ ries which followed. The inclusion of those not taking courses in the Department was pleasing as it enabled them to learn something of the work of this specialized unit. Current research includes studies on the nutritional needs of normal people, the role of cholestrol metabolism in atherosclerosis, the development of fat emulsions for parenteral feeding and the nutrition education of school children. Department of Nutrition (Left to right) TRULSON,GEYER, HEGSTED, MAYER, STARE, ANDRUS, VITALE, DAVIS, GERSHOFF

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Department of Microbiology Seated (left to right) IPSEN, MURRAY, SNYDER Standing (left to right) CHANG, BELL, TARIZZO, HADDON The wide range of background knowledge possessed by students entering this Depart¬ ment presents the staff with a difficult problem which is well handled. The novices and experts are catered for separately, and for the rest an excellent middle course is given. When the staff are not engaged in this teaching program, they can frequently be seen disap¬ pearing behind doors marked “Forbidden Unless Immunized” in the pursuit of their various research projects. Despite the added duties of the Dean’s office, Dr. Snyder continues to lead his Depart¬ ment into new fields of research. Latest of these is an investigation of trachoma in the Middle East. Dr. Murray, well known for his work on typhus and his experiences in Yugoslavia, Dr. Chang with his interest in the rickettsiae, and Dr. Bell working on tissue cultures, all con¬ tribute to make this Department vitally interesting and to underline its importance in the field of public health. This past year has provided ample evidence that the Department of Tropical Public Health still carries on in the traditions of its founder, Theobald Smith. Under Professor Weller, one of this year’s Nobel Prizemen, who occupies the newly endowed chair in Trop¬ ical Public Health, departmental research progresses. This includes virology, tissue cul¬ ture, protozoan and helminthic metabolism, and biological control of schistosome vectors. The Department’s teaching duties, a course in the Harvard Medical School and those in the School of Public Health, are for the most part a joint venture—parasitologists Augustine, Geiman, Chernin, Weller, and other staff members all sharing in the pleasures and responsibilities. Even with a past that includes such names as Smith, Strong, Tyzzer and Rene Dubos, we would guess that some of the Department’s brightest years are just aroupd the corner. Department of Tropical Public Health (Seated left to right) AUGUSTINE, WELLER, GEIMAN Standing (left to right) PAN, MICHELSON, CHERNIN