Studies of Stars Point the Way to Studies of Human Body; Illuminating Papers Read Before Southern Medical Association--Astronomical studies of distant stars have resulted in two important contributions to medical diagnosis and treatment, two Southern Medical Association physicians said today.
Reporting at the Second session of the association's annual meeting, which has brought together more than 2000 physicians from both Southern and Northern states, they declared uses of infra-red and deep blue light in studies of distant star clusters have been adapted with great success to studies of human diseases.
Dr. Edgar Jones of Vanderbilt university at Nashville, Tenn., and Dr. Narcisse F. Thiberge of the Louisiana State university school of medicine were the physicians who discussed this bridging of the gap between the most abstract of the sciences and the most practical one.
