August G. Swanson

Black Student Recruitment at the University of Washington

As a state university with a long-stated tradition of offering equal opportunity to all qualified students, the University of Washington granted the MD degree to two black students during the first 20 years of its medical schools history. It is impossible to tell how many black students applied and were rejected, for existing records give no evidence of race. Recognizing that conventional recruiting and admissions policies were not adequate to attract black students into medicine, an active program of counseling and information dissemination was started in 1968. The first major step was taken when the admissions officers of the School of Medicine and the School of Dentistry asked the black physicians and dentists of the Puget Sound area to begin a series of meetings. In these meetings the problems of motivation and counseling of black students enrolled in undergraduate programs on our own university campus were identified. These students had

Physiology of the Cerebrospinal Fluid

For the first time in ten years, the accrued information concerning the physiology of the spinal fluid has been recorded in a monograph. Dr. Davson’s previous book on the combined physiology of the cerebrospinal fluid and ocular fluids was an invaluable resource for clinicians and investigators interested in problems relative to the spinal fluid and neural function. The current volume will prove even more useful. During the past ten years, investigation of the physiology of the spinal fluid has increased considerably, including investigation of its formation and flow, relation of spinal fluid composition to brain and blood, and relationship of spinal fluid to certain aspects of brain function, such as the regulation of respiration and the maintenance of overall brain homeostasis in situations of systemic acid base and electrolyte imbalance. Dr. Davson has brought all of this information together in a scholarly fashion and has enhanced its value by a great number of illustrations from pertinent articles in the literature. This monograph is recommended to neurologists, neurosurgeons, and other clinicians interested in the cerebrospinal fluid. It is particularly recommended to those interested in the results of recent investigations of cerebrospinal fluid physiology. AUGUST G. SWANSON, M.D.