Medicine: Gastroscopy

At Manhattan's Columbia and Cornell medical schools last week, physicians had it brought home to them once again that although Adolf Hitler is impoverishing his own land by driving Jewish brains from Germany, he is steadily enriching U. S. medicine. From Chicago, where he has been an associate professor at the University of Chicago medical school since fleeing Germany in 1934, came Dr. Rudolf Schindler to demonstrate his flexible gastroscope,only instrument which makes possible direct observation of a living stomach.

Cancer of the stomach. Dr. Schindler pointed out, comprises 30 to 40% of...

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