Hardin News

• Cambus does not know how their routes will be affected.  Information should be available on Sunday.
• Iowa City Transit buses will run regular routes, but may be delayed.
• Coraville Transit buses will run regular routes, but may be delayed.

Kathy Skhal, Clinical Education Librarian at Hardin Library, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, June 16.  A memorial service will be held this Saturday, June 20, at 10:00 a.m. in the Sahai Auditorium (Room 1103) in MERF (Medical Education & Research Facility) at 375 Newton Road on the University of Iowa Health Sciences Campus. [map]  All of Kathy’s friends and colleagues are welcome to attend.  Parking is available at the Newton Road Parking Ramp, across the street from MERF.

Arrangements and online condolences are with Lensing Funeral and Cremation Service.  Memorials may be directed to Shriners Hospitals for Children. 

For more information, please call the Hardin Library at 319-335-9151.

President Obama addressed the AMA annual conference in Chicago this morning. 

Watch the address as an online video or read the text  online.

The festival is a day-long celebration of books, reading, and writing presented by the University of Iowa Libraries on Saturday, July 18.

It will be held in Gibson Square outside the Main Library’s south entrance.

See all of the activities that you will be able to participate in as well as volunteer opportunities and book vendor registrations at this website.

Alltop is a website which is described as an “online magazine rack” of popular topics.

Hardin Library has created a list of medical journals and magazines to assist in finding exactly what you need.

You can find the link to Hardin Library’s list right here .

You can now calculate your parking charges before you exit the ramp by using this application: http://m.uiowa.edu/home/parking/

This is provided by Information Technology Services as part of UI’s Mobile Beta project.

The University of Iowa will commemorate 2008’s flood on Monday, June 15, at the Old Capitol Museum.

Old Capitol Museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the event.

A formal program begins at 12:15 p.m. on the museum’s west steps.

The event is free and open to the public.

List of activities and more information can be located at this link

 William Beaumont (1785-1853).  Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion, Plattsburgh, 1833.

When U.S. Army Surgeon William Beaumont saw the gaping hole in Alex St. Martin’s side, he had every reason to believe the wound was fatal.  The 28 year old Canadian voyager was accidentally shot in the stomach by a musket ball at close range.  In 1822, on the isolated fur-trading post in Mackinac Island he was given little chance to survive but Beaumont dressed the wound as best he could and his patient held on despite the fist sized fistula that remained on his left side.  “I saw him in twenty-five or thirty minutes after the accident occurred, and on examination, found a portion of the lung, as large as a Turkey’s egg, protruding through the external wound, lacerated and burnt; and immediately below this, another protrusion, which, on further examination, proved to be a portion of the stomach, lacerated through all its coats, and pouring out the food he had taken for his breakfast…”  After 17 days, St. Martin’s digestion was partially restored but the fistula became permanent.  Three years later, now stationed in Fort Niagara with St. Martin employed as his handyman, Beaumont seized upon the opportunity to observe the digestive process as no one had before and, with his patient’s permission,  performed various experiments within this living gastric laboratory.
     Over the next eleven years, Beaumont carried out an assortment of tests, including dangling various kind of foodstuffs  in the digestive cavity and pulling them out at intervals to observe and record the results.  In 1833, Beaumont published his research in his highly regarded, “Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion,” now a medical classic and a book that marks the beginning of the field of gastric physiology.  St. Martin outlived Beaumont by 27 years, the latter dying from a fall in 1853 and the former dying at the age of 86 in Quebec of “natural causes.”  The location of his grave was not revealed until 1962 at which time a plaque was placed nearby, briefly describing his contribution to medical science.