BARUCH AID TO HEALTH
Research In Physical Medicine Backed By $1,100,000.
Grants Are Made to the Nation's Leading Medical Schools for Study of
Now frextuente, — :

By Howard W, Blakeslee
(Associated Press Science Baitor,)

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 men
with the ‘laying on of hands'.

Simultaneously the Baruch committee on physical medicine, headed by Dr. Ray
Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University, recommended a nation-wide scientific boost of
this art, particularly for returning soldiers.

The committee defined physical medicine as use of light, heat, water, cold,
electricity, massage, manipulation, exercise, spas, climatology and hydrology, the
latter specializing in baths, sprays, and the likes
"T om wii Baruch said, "that returning men and women now in the armed
services will need the advantages of physical medicine, and I feel this program will
help restore discharged vibiten to normal physical and mental condition, My inter-
est has been heightened by my desire to do something for the 700,000 returning
soldiers--men and women--every month, I want to do that something now, before I
get older. |

us Will Give Mere Maney.

The financial and presidential adviser said that if the program worked out
"I am prepared to put most of my fortune into ite-I believe in it.”

The Wilbur committee, which was financed by Baruch, suggested speoial investi-

- gation should be made of the value of personal contact between physician and
pationt, including investigation of the psychic effect of the "laying on of hands'.