Abstract :
Engineering for Doctors. Summarizing the latest reports of the Harkness family´s Commonwealth Fund´s philanthropic activities in the field of U. S. public health and medical research, Time magazine for January 22 points out that “One interesting award sends a man from a physiological laboratory to a school of engineering so that he can bring back from hydraulics and mechanics principles and techniques applicable to the study of blood pressure, blood flow, and the like.”
