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  causes an equal amount of sorrow and unhappi- lion dollars. With Dr. Lorenz he carried on this
  ness, the Sum total is zero, and is exactly equal work after the Rockefeller Foundation had dis-
  to that of a miserable characted who gives nothing carded the drug as unsuitable in the treatment of
  but sorrow during his life but, on passing on general syphilis. Their research in this field was
i   gives everyone a sense of relief and gladness that begun shortly after the end of the World War
ij he is out of the way. I always think of life as a and was completed in 1923. Hundreds of persons
si game to be played so as to get the most out of it suffering from paresis, the aftermath of syphilis,
  for those who come in contact with us, our dear have since been cured and have gone back into
Iv ones and ourselves. This means that we must get the world as se1f—supporting citizens.
1   the most out of each day and when one dear to Perhaps the idea over which Dr. Loevenhart
3   ns ieaves» we must School Ourselves to look back was the most enthusiastic was his conception of a
i   on that life as a W¤¤d€rf¤1 blessing to get hap- national therapeutic institute, where new drugs
_ . { Piness and not griei in dwelling on lt· For 8 time and medical treatments could be taken from the
Y ii we are overcome by loneliness and a sense of loss, laboratory stage and tried under practical hos-
e _ but we must resist that and eschew all self-pity pital conditions. Dr. Loevenhart’s enthusiasm for
is i which is so blitirig- Our emotions are such deli- this institute was increased by the knowledge that
{ 1 cate things that they are hard to control and the many institutes are conducted to promote pre-
d ii Partition that seParates our joys and our tears is ventive medicine while little time is devoted to
e `. exceedingly thin and gossamer-like. I speak from curative methods, .
s- experiences, The Mayo Brothers and other prominent medi-
le Having devoted his life to the task of benefit- cal men had endorsed the conception of such an ·
r- ting mankind he Could do nothing of value when institution. The financing of this institution was -
if his own aihietion Came- His illness and great to be left to the government or was to have been
St ’ suffering started a year before his death and he cared {or by private endowment_
d, sought o roooss rrorn duty in on orrorr ro rooiiPor“ The importance of such an institute, Dr. Loe-
at aro· abroad and in rho south but to no avaii· venhart stressed, lay in the possibility of an un-
6 Thoh during rho m¤¤th or April he Wont b¤¤k io biased test of a new drug, or method, without the ·
»w Johns Hopkins- rho insriinrion in which he gained pressure, or prejudice, that usually accompanies i
er naiionai recognition and ine greatest surgeons experimentation in the laboratories or hospitals .
and physicians administered to him. As the end Oi a private concern manufacturing the product  
tis rirow nonr ho* knowing horror than onY_oihors the and interested in its success as a means of making ·
necessity for a last word from him, dictated let- mOn€y_ .
  tors _or dirootioh hook ro the Univorsiry or Wis` Although the great scientist has concluded his
to consin, wrote a letter to Mrs. Loevenhart to be research Work On the campus Oi the University
lis received after his death, and reqtiested tiliat in of Wisconsin, part Oi it is being naiiied On·by
He cass oi his doain an autopsy be he ii and is~ro“ Dr. Warren Stratman—Thomas, who is now testing
_ mains be returned to Kentucky for burial. Every Six arsenic compounds in the inngies Oi the Congo
ini' wish that he made was carried out to the letter. as cures for Sleeping Sicknessh The compounds
2; Arthur Loevenhart’s th01‘0ugh knnwledge of were perfected by Dr. Loevenhart and Dr. gtrat-
at chemistry and Pharmaeology Was a big taetor in man-Thomas for the latter’s two-year expedition.
his the research work he carried on but expert as he While the project? described above comprised
his WHS in the technique of his ch¤se¤ field. he Was Dr. Loevenhart’s chief interests during the past
let- even more of a teacher than a scientist and Was eight years, he engaged in other bits of-research
_ to dnielr to aPPreeiate symptoms of developing ahll‘ in addition to directing students in their efforts
' is ity in his students. to wrest the secrets of matter from their hiding
gd: Scientists throughout the world were interested places lin nature. i l h
hat _· in the fall of 1928 when he and Doctor Lorenz lnrevious to the war, he did much work in oxi-
» announced and demonstrated their discovery of a lation in an effort to determine its effects on the
iii; _ method of reviving patients who had for months human body. He experimented with air which
ling j lain in a cataleptic stage of dementia proecox or had been partly depleted of·1ts oxygen to see: at
H mental paralysis. In dollars and cents his greatest the resuit would be Ion life in such an atmosii) er; Q
lem, » service to the State of Wisconsin was probably On this contribution to pure sliieigcizdwerie ase
{hat the utilization of tryparsamid in the treatmentlof applications of the Endings init e ed s ob anaes-
L Or _ , syphilis of the nervous system: A conservative thetics, aviation, deep-sea diving, an su marine  
uch . ._ estimate places the saving of Wisconsin from the work. (C ti led on Pa 6 Nineteen) i
i on _; use of this drug in public institutions at one mil- on un g i