A noted American psychiatrist who worked with two of them gave his views in New Orleans Saturday on the arrest of nine Soviet physicians accused of plotting to kill off high level Russian military and political leaders.
The psychiatrist, Dr. W. Horsely Gantt, founder and head of the Pavlovian laboratory at Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, Md., completed a week of lectures, before the staff and third- and fourth-year students at the Louisiana State university medical school Friday.
Dr. Gantt was in Russia in 1922 land 1923 as medical chief of the Petrograd unit of the American Relief Administration. He spent a year in England; then from 1925 to 1929 he studied in Petrograd in the laboratory of the late Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, famed physiologist and Nobel prize winner.
Dr. Gantt was given the Lasker award in 1946 for his research work in nervous diseases.
Furnished a published account about the arrest of the nine Soviet physicians, which made headlines iJan. 12, Dr. Gantt recalled his acquaintanceship with two of them IDrs. V. N. Vinogradov and G. I jMayorov. He did work in Russia in the '20s with both men, he said Bed in Lab too Short
"Mayorov," he said, "was a good porker and a pretty good research-r. He was a decent kind of a :hap. He'd been out of medical chool three Or four years then. Ve used to go skiing together."
Vinogradov, Dr. Gantt recalled, 'used to sleep every night on a couch in the laboratory that was too short for him. I remember it because he never took his boots off and his feet used to hang over the edge.
"Both men," Dr. Gantt said, 'were pleasant and jolly."
Dr. Gantt said he doubted the accusations made against the nine physicians.
He said he thought their arrest vas part of a "rising Russian nationalism in which Soviet scientists are being forced to eliminate references to the work of foreigners n their research."
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