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22nd APS President (1950)
Henry Cuthbert Bazett
(1885-1950)
Henry Cuthbert Bazett served as president of the Society for less than
three months. After assuming office on 20 April 1950, he died tragically on
11 July 1950 about ship en route to the International Physiological Congress
in Copenhagen.
Born in Gravesend, England, Bazett obtained his education at Oxford
(B.A., 1908; M.B., 1911; B.Ch., 1911; M.S., 1913; and M.D., 1919). After
service as a medical officer in the British Army during World War I, he
accepted a professorship in physiology at the University of Pennsylvania in
1921. He held this position until his untimely death in 1950. Bazett's
scientific work was largely concerned with temperature control, circulation,
and blood volume. He contributed greatly to the study of circulation in
humans by using catheterization, and he had the reputation of serving
himself as the first subject on new and potentially hazardous experimental
techniques.
Before assuming the presidency of APS, Bazett served as president elect
for one year and as a member of Council for the previous two years. His
service to APS also included eight years on the Board of Publication
Trustees (1936-44). While on the Council and as president elect he
contributed much to the formation of IUPS and was to be a delegate to the
congress to which the proposed constitution was presented. As chairman of
the APS Committee on Scientific Aid he was responsible for providing
much-needed books and equipment to the war-depleted physiology laboratories
of Europe.
Selected Publications
1. Fenn, W. O. History of the American Physiological Society: The
Third Quarter Century, 1937-1962. Washington, DC: Am. Physiol. Soc.,
1963, p. 20-21.
2. Peterson, L. H. Henry C. Bazett. Physiologist 22(1): 4-5,
1979.
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