RARUGH AID TO HEALTH
Research In Physioal Medicine Backed By $2,100,000.
Grants Are Made to the Nation's Leading Medical Schools for study of
| New Treatments.

 

(Associated Press Sotence Editor.)

New York. April 26.-- Bernard M, Baruch today gave $1,100,000 to extend. the
oldest branch of the healing arts, physical medicine, which started among cave mon
with the ‘laying on of hands'.—

Similtaneously the Baruch committee on physical medicine, headed by Drs Ray
Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University, da nation-wide scientific boost of
this art, particularly for returning soldiers.

The on defined physical medicine as use of light, heat, water, cold,
electricity, message, manipulation, exercise, spas, climatology and hydrology, the
latter specializing in baths, sprays, and the like.

"I an gonvinced,” Baruch said, “that returning men and wonen now in the exmed
services will need the advantages of physical medicine, and I feel this program will
help restore discharged soldiers to normal physical and mental condition. My inter-.
est has been heightened by my desire to do something for the 700,000 retuming
soldiers--mon and women--svery month. I want to do that something now, before I
get older. 3

 

Will Give More Money.
"I am prepared to put most of my fortune into it--I believe in it."
The Wilbur committee, which was financed by Baruch, suggested special investi-
gation should be made of the value of personal contact between physician and
patient, including investigation of the psychic effect of the ‘laying on of hands‘.