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Alfred Gilman
Pages 58-81

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From page 59...
... concern for their personal problems. As for his scientific achievements, he playact a key role in our unclerstancling of how the ionic milieu of the belly is maintainer!
From page 60...
... While still a postdoctoral fellow in pharmacology Gilman first met Louis S Goodman, who had just completed an internship in medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
From page 61...
... to emphasize the application of pharmacoclynamics to therapeutics a momentous change to be unclertaken by two junior faculty members, both barely thirty years oIcI. Hearing of their project, John Fulton, professor of physiology, introclucec!
From page 62...
... an opportunity not only to keep abreast of recent advances in therapeutics but also to acquire the basic principles necessary for the rational use of cirugs in tinily practice. The book was an immediate success.
From page 63...
... his role prior to the eighth edition, Gilman's son, Alfred Goodman Gilman, who became the senior editor at the time of the sixth eclition, will continue as the Blue Bible's consultant editor. Oilman conic!
From page 64...
... then continue with an hour of applied pharmacology, all beautifully illustrated by the final equation itself which hac! remainec!
From page 65...
... War Gilman left Yale for army service as chief of the Pharmacology Section in the Meclical Division at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, with the rank of major. These war years were largely spent in trying to clevelop antidotes for the nerve gas organophosphates en c!
From page 66...
... just to racliation or to raclical surgery. From this insightful beginning medical oncology grew en c!
From page 67...
... the many expensive failures (of which the public usually remains unaware) on the roar!
From page 68...
... the capacity of the renal tubules to reabsorb bicarbonate. Such an increase in CO2 tension occurs in many forms of pulmonary disease leacling to the condition known as respiratory acidosis.
From page 69...
... the aciclitional responsibility of becoming the first associate clean for graduate studies at Albert Einstein. Gilman's cleclication en c!
From page 70...
... This interest and talent developed in early boyhood, undoubtedly stemming from the fact that his father, Joseph Gilman, owner! the Gilman Music Store in Bridgeport.
From page 71...
... en c! Mabel on the East Coast by themselves together with Lou Goodman in faraway Utah.
From page 72...
... W S., 1943-46 Associate professor of pharmacology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1946-48 Professor of pharmacology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1948-56 Professor and chairman, Department of Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1956-73 Associate dean for graduate studies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1964-69 Lecturer in pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, 1973-84 MEMBERSHIPS Sigma Xi American Physiological Society Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine Harvey Society American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics New York Academy of Sciences New York Academy of Medicine Honorary fellow, American Academy of Allergy Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
From page 73...
... ALFRED OILMAN Honorary member, Alpha Omega Alpha National Academy of Sciences Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE U.S. Public Health Service: Member of the Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Study Section, 1946-49 and 1950-55; chairman, 1956-60 73 Member, Pharmacology Training Committee, 1960-63 Member, Heart Special Projects Committee, 1963-65 Advisory Council on Research, New York Heart Association, 1958 64 Scientific and Educational Council, Allergy Foundation of America Editorial Board of American Journal of Physiology and Journal of Applied Physiology, 1950-56; consulting editor, 1956-57 Editorial Board of Pharmacological Reviews, 1948-55 Advisory Council, Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation, 1960-65 Advisory Council, New York City Health Research Council, 1960-65 President, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1960-61 National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council: Member, Division of Medical Sciences, 1962-71 Executive Committee, Medical Division, 1962-64 Member, Drug Research Board, 1963-72 Chairman of Organization Committee, Drug Efficacy Review, 1966-67 Chairman of Executive Committee, Drug Efficacy Review Committee, 1967-69 Chairman, Drug Research Board, 1971-72
From page 74...
... Osmotic and specific gravity changes in the serum following subcutaneous and intraventricular pituitrin.
From page 75...
... 33:238-40. The differences in voluntary water intake following the intravenous administration of hypertonic sodium chloride and urea.
From page 76...
... 90:113-24. The relation between blood osmotic pressure, fluid distribution and voluntary water intake.
From page 77...
... John. The treatment of acute systemic mercury poisoning in experimental animals with BAL, thiosorbitol and BAL glucoside.
From page 78...
... X The treatment of acute systemic mercury poisoning in experimental animals with BAL, thiosorbitol and BAL glucoside.
From page 79...
... The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
From page 80...
... The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 4th ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.


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