BEECHER AWARDED WARREN MEDAL FOR MEDICAL ESSAY

H. K. Beecher, a fourth-year medical student at the Harvard Medical School, has been awarded the Warren Medal for his essay on "The Effect of Laparatomy on Lungs and Respiration." Beecher is from Wichita, Kansas, where he took his A. B. in 1926 and his M.A. in 1927 at the University of Kansas. Laparatomy is an operation in which an incision is made in the abdominal wall.

J. Mason Warren, who matriculated from the Harvard Medical School in 1832, established the fund in 1867 in memory of his father. The prize is awarded for the best essay on some subject in physiology, surgery, pathology or anatomy.