Friday, Ma,' 5, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Mr. Baruch's Medical Gift
Endorsed by Army and Navy
'\ Noted Philanthropist Reveals Plan to Benefit War Veterans
in Announcing $1,100,000 Gift for Research Into
Physical Medicine, Pioneered by His Father
NEW YORK—"If it works out all right, I propose that
practically all of my fortune will go into it," said 73-year-old
Bernard M. Baruch this week in announcing a gift of $1,-
100,000 to advance teaching and research in the field of
physical medicine.
- "But it has got to turn out right. I don't like to waste
structural mechanics of physical
medicine.
To the Medical College of Vir-
ginia, from which Mr. Baruch's
father, the late Dr. • Simon
Baruch, was graduated in 1862,
will go $250,000 for the establish-
ment of a center of teaching and
research in hydrology, climatol-
ogy and spa therapy.
Immediate Program
A fund of $100,000 will be
shared by selected medical
schools to develop and immedi-
ate program for the physical re-
habilitation of war casualties and
those injured in industry.
Lastly, fellowships or resi-
dences for the benefit of qual-
ified physicians or other scien-
tists will be set up with the re-
maining $100,000.
The offices at 597 Madison
Ave., New York, now occupied
by the Baruch Committee on
Physical Medicine, will be the
headquarters of the administra-
tive board.
money," Mr. Baruch added in his(!)
announcement that he has a will act as program director, and
firm belief that physical medi- Miss Mary A. Boyle of New
cine has not received the scien- York, associate of Mr. Baruch.
tific treatment it deserves and
Mr. Baruch revealed that the
that he has evolved a program $1,100,000 lump sum gift must
that will bring several of the be expended by recipient insti-
nation's leading medical schools tutions over a 10-year period for
into collaboration.
specific purposes, and that each
Institutions Named
center established must have "a
Institutions named by Mr. specialist in clinical -physical
Baruch to participate in the re- m e d i c i n e and appropriately
search are Columbia Univer- trained and interested laboratory N. Y. Times Praises
Mr. Baruch's Gift
sity's College of Physicians and assistants."
The New York Times, in an
Surgeons, New York University's
Reason for Decision
editorial on Thursday, April 27,
College of Medicine and the
"With
70,000
boys
being
dis-
,
lauded Bernard Baruch's gift of
Medical College of Virginia.
The theory of physical medi- charged from the armed services $1,100,000 for research in the
cine involves the diagnosis and each month and needing the ben- field of physical medicine as
treatment of disease by such ex- efits of physical medicine, some- "the first far-reaching plan for
ternal physical agents as light, thing had to be done," Mr. rehabilitation of the casualties
water, heat, electricity, exercise Baruch said in giving as his rea- of war and industry."
"The need of this effort has
and massage. Immediate re- son for his decision to • announce
long been obvious," the New
search into the field is expected the program at this time.
Mr. Baruch's interest in this York Times said, "since a branch
to be of great benefit in rehabil-
itating sick and wounded war field of medicine was motivated of medicine which has hitherto
by the fact that hiS father, a great been largely empirical in its pro-
veterans.
doctor in his time, was a pioneer cedures is thus to be elevated to
Man of the Hour.
Mr. Baruch, President Roose- in the field. He declared that the level of a more exact dis-
velt's man of the hour and a he had intended to make such a cipline and to broaden its in-
key figure on the nation's home donation years ago "in memory fluence.
"What medicine needs is an
front in the last World War and of my father, who, as Professor
the present one, made the present of Hydrotherapy at Columbia evaluation of techniques and a
million dollar gift only after he College of Physicians and Sur- systematic research .to disclose
had induced a group of leading geons, was a pioneer in this new possibilities," the editorial
medical men to make a thorough field," and that his interest was added, "and all this and more
scientific study of the possibil- revived in the mid-twenties is provided for in the compre-
when Alfred E. Smith, then gov- hensive plan formulated by a
ities of physical medicine.
The great financier ,and phil- ernor of New York, appointed committee of scientists who con-
anthropist who recently turned him to the Saratoga Springs ducted a survey on behalf of
over $1,000,000 in War Bonds to Commission, of which he later Mr. Baruch."
the Army and Navy Relief, the became chairman.
fighting men of the United Na-
After putting it off until the Research Laboratory
tions and refugee organizations, war broke out, Mr. Baruch ex- Gift of Dr. A. A. Berg
was greatly impressed by the re- plains, he contacted Dr. Wilbur
NEW YORK (JPS) — Di:. A.
port turned in by the medical last Oct. 11, asking him to head A. Berg, president-elect of the
men. The report won the praise a broad committee to make a International College of Surgeons
of outstanding medical men of preliminary survey of the field. and consulting surgeon to Mount
the Army and Navy, who attest- The request eagerly accepted, a Sinai Hospital, has donated a
ed to the need for immediate de- committee of eight was formed gift for the postwar construction
velopment in this field.
with Dr. W. T. Sanger, president of a research laboratory at that
0. K.'d By Army, Navy
of the Medical College of Vir- hospital in memory of his
Endorsement of the program ginia, as vice-chairman.
brother and medical associate,
was made by Vice Admiral Ross
400 Scientists Consulted
Dr. Henry W. Berg, who died on
T. McIntire, Surgeon General of
This committee has been oper- Dec. 22, 1938, at the age of 79.
the Navy; Maj. Gen. Norman T. ating under funds, aside from the
The new laboratory will aid
Kirk, Surgeon General of the present gift, provided by Mr. research in bacteriology, patho-
Army; Maj. Gen. David N. W. Baruch and organized eight sub- logy, physiology, chemistry, gas-
Grant, Air Surgeon of. the Army, committees, and after working tro-enterology, cardiology, hema-
and Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, from Nov. 1 to Jan. 30, submitted tology, endoctrinology, metabol-
Administrator of the Veterans its report. More than 400 scien- ism, allergy and biophysics; The
Bureau.
tists were consulted in compiling hospital's electron microscope,
Admiral McIntire expressed the report.
ultracentrifuge and other special-
himself "in complete accord with
From the $1,100,000 fund, the ized research apparatus will be
the principle and recommenda- College .of Physicians and sur- housed in the new structure.
tion" of the report and said the geons at Columbia will receive
plan for increasing the number the most, $400,000, for the es- Find New Arthritis Serum
of teachers was "highly desir- tablishment of a key center of
CHICAGO (JPS) — Dr. Philip
able."
research and teaching of physical R. Trommer and Dr. Abraham
Gen. Kirk announced that his medicine. A grant of $250,000 Cohen of the Philadelphia Gen-
branch of service was "vitally will be given to New York Uni- eral and Jefferson Hospitals,
concerned with any • new scien- versity to establish a center for have reported a new treatment
tific enlightenment in this field, teaching and special research in for rheumatoid arthritis, for the
especially as it pertains to recon- preventative and manipulative quick relief of severely painful
ditioning of wounded soldiers
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and sailors."
Administrative Board
In a move to speed the pro-
gram, Mr. Baruch already has.
set up an administrative board,
headed by Dr. Ray Lyman Wil-
bur, president of Stanford Uni-
Highest Altitude in Southern Michigan
versity, Palo Alto, Calif., who
will initiate the program.
On Wamplers Lake in the Heart of
Other members of the board
are Dr. Frank H. Krusen, pro-
the Irish Hills. Recognized by au-
fessor of physical medicine at
thorities as the Outstanding Camp
the University of Minnesota and
head of the physical medicine
in the Middle West.
section of the Mayo Clinic, .who
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For the 1944 Season
Page Eleven
Judge Proskauer Gets Citation
Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the American Jewish
Committee, author of the widely used "Pledge for American Unity,"
was honored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews
with a good will citation. The presentation was made by District
Attorney Frank Hogan of New York (center). Willard Johnson, as-
sistant to the president of the National Conference of Christians
and Jews, is shown on the right.
Our Letter Box
for that leadership must go to
you who supported the 1944 Red
Cross War Fund Campaign so
earnestly.
Red Cross Thanks Detroit Jews
Editor, The Jewish News:
Again Detroit has demonstrat-
ed its leadership among the
large cities of the country in
service to the Red Cross, and
again a great share of the credit
In the continuing work of the
Red Cross we hope to have your
cooperation in telling your
readers the story of Red Cross
activities. To this end we shall
mail you regularly, releases
which' we feel will be of general
interest.
As of the present writing our
muscle spasm apd muscular dis-
ability of an arthritis. attack. The War Fund campaign total is half
treatment, reported in the forth- a million dollars beyond our
coming issue of the Journal of goal. Will - you thank the resi-
the American Medical Associa- dents of your community for the
tion, consists of hypodermic in- loyal support which has made
jections of the drug neostigmine this achievement possible.
three or four times • weekly.
Sincerely yours,
Thirteen out of 19 patients have
JAMES SCHERMERHORN, JR.
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