Evening star., 1934-03-28
DIR. v. B. CANNON
K0BER LECTURER
Noted Harvard PhysioIogist
Will Speak at CASTOR
Hall Tonight.

Selected as the Kober lecturer fol-
Physicians, DR.. Walter Bradford Can
non, noted physiologist of Harvard
Medical School and the George Hig-
ginson Professor of Physiology since
1906, will deliver his lecture tonight al
o'clock in CASTOR Hall at George
town University
Announcement also will be made to-
night of the award of the Kobel
medal to an outstanding member oi
the medical profession.
At tonight's lecture, members ol
three groups which alternate annually
in making the Kober awards will at.
tend. These are the Association Of
Military Surgeons of the United
States, the Association of American
Physicians and the Medical Society
of the District of Columbia.
Selection Is Honor.
The Kober lecturer, distinct homo,
in medical circles, is selected each
year to deliver a lecture on March q
on the birthday anniversary of the
late DR.. George NJ Kober of Wash
ington. formerly dean of the George
town Medical School. For nearly hall
century DR.. Kober was a leader in
American medical and sanitation cir
cles.
DR.. Cannon is regarded as the out
standing authority in the world to-
Gay on physiology, having devoted his
entire professional life to studies which
have to do with the effect of the emo
tions on bodily processes and with the
maintenance of steady states in the
organism. For this latter he has in
vented the term "homeostasis" His
researches added much to the medi-
cal knowledge of "shock" during the
World War and won him the Dis
tinguished Service Medal from the
American Government and the Order
Of the Bath from Great Britain.
DR.. CannonS laborS have been un-
ceasing and unremitting. His most
recent contributions have been the
demonstration of a substance having
an adrenin-like action which is lib
Grated when certain smooth muscles
are made to contract. More recently
he has demonstrated another sub
stance having the opposite effect
These demonstrations were widely
publicized in scientific circles. The
substances, believed to be of the nature
of hermones, he has named Sym
pathin E. and "Sympathin l."
Has Many Awards.
Educated at Yale and Harvard, DR..
Cannon has had many honors be-
slowed upon him for his researches.
He was the Baly medalst of the
Royal College of Physicians, London,
in 1881, and the Croonian lecturer of
the same society in 1918. Among the
European universities that have con-
ferred honorary degrees upon him
are those OF Liege, Strasburg and
Paris.
He is member Of various scien-
tific societies and exchange professor
to the University of Paris, 1929-30.
Among the scientific groups to which
he belongs are the Society of Biolo-
gistz of Paris, the Society of Biolo-
gists of Buenos Aires, the American
College of Physicians, the Association
of Gastro-enterologists the Society
of Experimental Biologists, the Amer
ican Academy of Science, the Society
of Biologists of Barcelona and the
Royal Academy Bologna.
Rev. John L. Gipprich, S. j., regent
of the Georgetown Medical School,
will preside at tonights lecture, and
the speaker will be introduced by DR..
William Gerry Morgan, dean of the
school and formerly president of the
American Medical Association.