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Carl Frederic Schmidt
Carl Frederic Schmidt
Pages 273-290
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His son, Jacob Carl, was apprenticed to a jeweler in Reacting, Pa. The son was approximately six and half feet tall, weighed 300 pounds, and was quite an athlete; he pitched for a short time for the Baltimore Orioles, and for several years thereafter was a "scorcher," or demon rider of penny-farthing bicycles.
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~ · ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ mobile mechanic at which he had dabbled for several years. Two more plausible choices remained: he was offered a two-year scholarship at Lebanon Valley College, on the basis of his high school grades, and an appointment to West Point.
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. There, his first assignment was to complete the blood counts of members of a crew of British and Indian seamen from a ship that had put out from Bombay a month earlier, had been refused landing at Liverpool because of an undiagnosed illness aboard, and had gone on to Philadelphia.
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. It is notable that a remarkable number of outstanding American meclical educators and investigators spent varying periocis at Peking Union Meclical College during those years.
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Just before and after his retirement from the University of Pennsylvania, Carl served as the editor of Circulation Research ~ ~ 958-62) , and was then appointed research director of the Naval Air Developmental Center at Johnsville, Pa.
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To their amazement it produced a prolonged rise in blood pressure (all other botanical extracts produced only hypotension or nothing. ~ Within a few days Chen isolated the active principle; a search of the literature revealed that it had been found nearly fifty years earlier by the Japanese investigator N
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, as well as from the upper respiratory tract, pulmonary venous area, coronary artery, and cardiac muscle and surface. Aluch of the early work was reviewe(1 by Schmidt (]
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In 1943, with Paul Dumke, he made the first quantitative and reliable measurements of cerebral blood flow in the macaque monkey by intercalating into the arterial input a bubble flow meter (1943,21. Two years later he extended his measurements to cerebral oxygen consumption under a variety of experimental conditions ~1945,2)
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He worked closely with John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, L Gordon Cooper, Virgil Grissom, Frank Borman, Neil Armstrong, and the other pioneer astronauts in showing them how to deal with the tremendous G-forces they would encounter (1965)
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national committees is extensive. Among Carl Schmicit's many honors were honorary clegrees from his alma maters, Lebanon Valley College ant!
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Most of their junior associates were residents in internal medicine, anesthesiology, and other medical specialties who spent one or more years in the Department of Pharmacology learning the principles of pharmacological research. They then returned to their clinical departments to put these principles into practice.
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Hirt. Uber die physiologischen Wirkungen des essigsauren Veratrin e.
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Nicotinic receptors in healthy and ischemic heart ash special reference to the Bezoldjar~ch reflex.
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I The respiratory responses to changes in cerebral blood flow.
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Kety. The effects of altered arterial tensions of carbon dioxide and oxygen on cerebral blood flow and cerebral oxygen consumption of normal young men.
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Relationship of oxygen tension to hemoglobin oxygen saturation in the arterial blood of normal men.
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