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"ONE of the memorable experiences of this war," writes Prof. D. W. Bronk, in his contribution to the symposium on war-time advances in medicine held by the American Philosophical Society (Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 88, 151; 1944), "is to stand at evening in the Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge, outside Isaac Newton's rooms, and watch the Flying Forts return." More memorable, some Cambridge residents might add, was the unforgettable sight, sudden and wonderful after dark years of trial, of the sky one summer evening full of the aeroplanes and men going out on the first one-thousand bomber attack. Such developments have been made possible by the work, in Great Britain and in the United States, of men like Prof. Bronk, who is professor of biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania and co-ordinator of research, Office of the Air Surgeon, Headquarters Army Air Forces. His contribution to this symposium discusses such human problems of aviation as the effects of rising, as modern fliers do, to heights of six miles in six minutes, the effects of high-speed manœuvres in machines built to with-stand the stresses involved (although the human body is not) and problems of night flying and vision.
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LAPAGE, G. War-Time Medical Progress in America. Nature 155, 278–280 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155278a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155278a0