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a BARUCH AID TO HEALTH
Researoh In Physical Medicine Backed By $2, 100,000. | |
Grants Are Made to the Nation's Sanding. Medion? Sehools for Study of a. :

‘New Treatments.

By Howard W. Blakeslee
(Associated Press Science Editor. )

ee April 26,-- Bernard H, Baruch today gave 1,100,000 to extend the ;
oldest branch of the \isktbee arts, physical medicine, which started among cave mon
with the ‘laying on of hands'. | :
Simultaneously the Baruch committee on evetenl medicine, headed by Dr. Ray
Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University, recomended a nation-wide scientific boost of
this art, particularly for retuming soldiers. |
| ‘The committee defined physical mdicine as use of light, heat, water, cold, _
electricity, mssage, manipulation, exercise, spas, Glimatology and hydrology, the 2
latter specializing in baths, sprays, and the like.

"I an convinced," Baruch sald, "that returning men and women now in the aried
services will need the advantages of physical medicine, and I feel this program wil "
help. restore discharged soldiers to normal physical and mental conditd one My
est has been heightened by my desire to do something for the 700,000 returning a
soldiers-men and wonen--every month. I want to do that something now, before 7

 

get older.
oO _-WAll Give More Money.
‘The finaneiel and presidential adviser said that if the progran worked out:
"I am prepared to put most of my fortune into ite«I believe in it.” a
The Wilbur connittee, which was financed by Baruch, suggested special inve :