RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
31,000 for research, under the direction of Professor
Otto Krayer, on the pharmacology of the
nervous system, particularly in relation to the
effect of eserin, thyroxin, and similar chemicals
'on the parasympathetic nerves. In the Netherlands
a grant of 31,662.43 was made to the University
of Utrecht for research by Professor J.
Boeke and Dr. van der Sprenkel on the structure
of colloids in blood and in nerve tissue culture
media and cells. In Poland $1,750 was provided
for the promotion of research in neurophysiology
at the Neurobiological Institute in Warsaw by
Dr. Georges Chorobski. Two grants were made to
the University of Lisbon, Portugal—one of
31,500 for histological studies of the sympathetic
nervous system by Professor A. P. Celestino da
Costa, and one of 3490 to enable a member of the
neurosurgical service to visit London Hospital
for a period of three months to study neurosurgical
technique under Dr, Hugh Cairns, In
Switzerland two grants were made to the University
of Bern and two to the University of
Zurich. At the former, 32,481.63 was provided
for the general development of research on brain
diseases in the Psychiatric Clinic under the direction
of Professor J. Klaesi, and 3988.47 for
research in this clinic on metabolism in certain
types of mental disease; at the University of
Zurich 31,955.53 was contributed toward re-
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