RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
of the brain, by Dr. Lorente de No; $3,000 to
the University of Alabama, for investigations on
the functions of the brain stem and basal ganglia;
32,000 to the University of Michigan, for studies
by Professor M. M. Peet on brain tumors and
sympathetic pathways; 3850 to the University
of Pennsylvania, for research in neurophysiology
under Dr. F. H. Lewy; 3500 for studies at the
Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston, under
the direction of Dr. G. R. Minot, on the relation
of vitamin B to dietary principles in normal man
and in patients suffering from certain diseases
involving disturbances of the nervous system.
Eighteen small grants, none exceeding 33,000,
were made during 1935 to aid in the completion
of certain research projects not directly related to
the present program. These were distributed
among thirteen countries as follows: two each in
Czechoslovakia, Great
Britain, France, the
Netherlands, and Sweden, and
one each in
Argentina, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary,
the Republic of Lebanon, Palestine, and
Switzerland.
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Teaching of Public Health In Medical Schools
In connection with its secondary program in
the medical sciences, which is concerned with
the teaching of public health, preventive medicine,
and hygiene to medical students, the Foun-
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