DR. HASTINGS

Duration: 60 min

Year Published: 1973

Creator: National Medical Audiovisual Center (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare)

Color: B&W

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Discusses some of his major research at Harvard, where he was for 23 years Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry. Recalls his interest and research in electrolyte composition, tetany and parathyroid tetany, intermediary metabolism of lactic acid in the liver, the effect of chemicals on the mechanical work of the heart, and other application of biochemistry. From the GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE series.