Talk:Ida Henrietta Hyde

Several minor issues

"She was required to go beyond the work of an average student to receive her degree, becoming the first woman to do so from that college." Provided reference #1 seems to say she's the third student to get a doctoral degree (much less a degree at all) from Heidelberg. Is something more specific intended here? (First foreign woman, first in that subject area...?) I'd be inclined to link Heidelberg University, especially as the history reveals considerable confusion with Heidelberg College. I hesitate to add such a thing, though, as these days it seems to be the done thing to have the austerely uplifting purity of a couple of paragraphs of plain text before resorting to anything so gauche as wiki markup. Lastly, the article is flagged as an orphan. It does not appear to fit that definition per wp:orphan, albeit it's just short of the "ideal" target of three or more. This does not seem to be a matter of underlinking, as I've searched for the text and found no others, unfortunately. Should she get a mention on the HU page, perhaps? Should the tag remain? Is there a somewhat lower-key way of flagging "few inbound links"? 84.203.39.242 (talk) 03:03, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Updates and edits

This page was edited as part of the Wikiproject Women Scientists Geog Q (talk) 18:08, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Proposed Edits

Overview

I intend on adding the following information onto the overview section. Ida was never married and agnostic in her religious standing. She retired at the age in 63 in the year 1920. After her retirement, Ida traveled to several places, including Switzerland, Austria, Egypt, India, and several locations in Germany. On August 22, 1945 Ida Hyde died of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Rose, 248)

Childhood

“Born in Davenport, Iowa, Ida was one of four children to Meyer and Babette Heidenheimer, German immigrants from Württemberg.” This sentence could also be edited to include the maiden name of Ida's mother (Lowenthal). "In order to keep the family afloat, they moved to Chicago, where Babette was able to start a prosperous business.[1]" I plan on changing this original sentence, to specify the type of work that Babette did at this time and the type of education the children received, to the following edit. “In order to keep the family afloat, they moved to Chicago, where Babette took in cleaning and mending until she was able to start a prosperous business. All of the children were able and sent to public school and became educated middle class individuals, with the intention of Ida’s only brother Ben, to attend university.

Education

“and for the next six years she worked as a teacher of second- and third-graders.” Next I would plan on specifying the Chicago public school system as Ida Hyde's place of work and correcting the number of years she worked in elementary teaching from six to seven years.

I then intend to add the following passage between the third and fourth paragraphs of the education section: 'Ida’s results from the research at Woods Hole is said to have helped motivate Dr. Goette in inviting her to come to University of Strasbourg in 1893, to work with him even as no woman had done previously. Hyde, during her attendance at Strasbourg, was the first woman in Germany to have ever petitioned to matriculate for an advanced degree in natural science or mathematics. To achieve this goal, it was necessary to petition the government and get permission from the faculty. Before this process went fully into motion Ida withdrew her attempts. It is said that the large number of people who spoke out against Ida going through with the petition is what was the cause of that decision, and that Heidelberg University would be a better place to gain her degree.'

I also plan on placing this statement to the end of the last paragraph in this section. Ida researched at several other institutions before going to the University of Kansas including University of Berne 1896, and Radcliffe College 1897. After she started working at KU, Hyde also studied at Rush Medical College over several summers to receive her M. D. in 1911.

Career

I would like to put in place the next passage at the beginning of the career section to describe what occurred in Dr. Hyde's career in elementary teaching. 'In the course of Ida’s seven years of teaching she was involved in establishing the “Science in the Schools” program in Chicago’s public school system. This program helped to introduce Nature Studies into these school, where Ida was even known for sharing her own teaching methods with the other educators.'

“She was hired as an Associate Professor by the University of Kansas in 1899 and founded the Department of Physiology, also serving as its first Chairman of the Department of Physiology, where worked for 22 years."

"Over her career, Hyde's research covered the nervous, circulatory, and respiratory systems of vertebrates and invertebrates, and explored the effects of narcotics, caffeine, and alcohol on the body. She was the first women elected into the American Society of Physiologists in 1902." The final additions I would like to make to the career section of this page include the following. “Over her career, Hyde's research covered the nervous, circulatory, and respiratory systems of vertebrates and invertebrates, and explored the effects of narcotics, and alcohol on the body. Also in through the course of her work she noted the differences in the effects of music on the cardiovascular system in athletes, musicians, and farmers and caffeine being the cause of decreased efficiency in physical work. She was the first women elected into the American Society of Physiologists in 1902, and was its only female member until 1913.”

Microelectrode

The first edit planed in this portion of this article involves these additions within the already existing text. “Her most well-known invention was an intracellular micropippette electrode, Dr. Hyde had observed that electrolytes in high concentrations affect processes of cell division, leading to her noting the minute differences in electrical potential within cells. In order to understand how these nerve and muscle cells work, she needed to be able to stimulate the cells properly and be able to record the results of the change in the currents of the individual cells occurring. Ida’s microelectrode can be used for stimulating cells at the micro level while recording electrical activity within the cell without disturbing the cellular wall. This device was a revolutionary invention in neurophysiology and the study of contractile nerve tissue, however, it was never officially attributed to Ida as being the inventor.”

I would wish to add the following passage to the end of this section of Hyde's page. Though Dr. Hyde’s microelectrode invention was reported in 1921, several others also created electrodes similar to Ida’s, while scientific historians, like G. Kass-Simon have accredited Hyde’s invention as the original and revolutionary. Another microelectrode was supposedly invented another time about twenty years after Ida claimed to have made her version of this invention by Judith Graham and Ralph W. Gerard from the University of Chicago. Then in the 1950’s, Gerard was nominated for a Nobel Prize, because of his developed model of the microelectrode.

Contributions to the Human Health Field

I am planning on adding a new section labeled Contributions to the Human Health Field and a passage to coincide with it.

Ida Hyde lectured on multiple occasions within and outside of the University of Kansas.With the aid of area physicians, she established a program of public medical examination of school children for communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and spinal meningitis. Though she was not a true medical professional, she was elected to membership in the Kansas Medical Society because of her expertise in the knowledge and control of infectious diseases. And in 1918 she was appointed State Chairman of the Kansas Women’s Committee on Health, Sanitation and National Defense. A notable proportion of the lectures Ida held in her career were on hygiene and spreadable diseases. Dr. Hyde spoke openly about human sexuality and its involvement in the spread of disease, as well as being an open promoter of public health education.

Selected Publications

The following are publications that Ida Henrietta Hyde authored within her career:

• “Notes on the hearts of certain mammals.’’ American Naturalist 25 (1891): 861–863.

• ‘‘The nervous mechanism of the respiratory movements in Limulus polyphemus.’’ Journal of Morphology 9 (1894): 431–446.

• ‘‘Collateral circulation in the cat after ligation of the post cava.’’ Kansas University Quarterly 9 (1900): 167–171.

• ‘‘The effect of distention of the ventricle on the flow of blood through the walls of the

heart.’’ American Journal of Physiology 1 (1900): 215–225.

• ‘‘The nervous system of Gonionema murbachii.’’ Biological Bulletin 4 (1902): 40–45.

• ‘‘The nerve distribution in the eye of Pecten irradians.’’ In Mark Anniversary Volume, article 24, 471–482. New York: Holt, 1903.

• ‘‘Differences in electrical potential in developing eggs.’’ American Journal of Physiology 12 (1904): 241–275.

• ‘‘Localization of the respiratory center in the skate.’’ American Journal of Physiology 10 (1904): 236–258.

• Outlines of Experimental Physiology. Lawrence, KS: n.p., 1905.

• ‘‘Recent scientific contributions to social welfare. Modern aspects of physiology.’’ Chautauquan 41 (1905): 244–250.

• ‘‘A reflex respiratory center.’’ American Journal of Physiology 16 (1906): 368–377.

• ‘‘The educational importance of physiology.’’ Interstate Schoolman (1907): 18–20.

• ‘‘The effect of salt solutions on the respiration, heart beat and blood pressure in the

skate.’’ American Journal of Physiology 23 (1908): 201–213.

• (with R. Spray and I. Howat) ‘‘The influence of alcohol upon the reflex action of some cutaneous sense organs in the frog.’’ Kansas University Science Bulletin 7 (1913): 229–238.

• Laboratory Outlines of Physiology. Lawrence, KS: Department of Journalism Press, University of Kansas, 1914.

• ‘‘The development of a tunicate without nerves.’’ Kansas University Science Bulletin 9 (1915): 175–184.

• (with C. Spreier) ‘‘The influence of light upon reproduction in Vorticella.’’ Kansas University Science Bulletin 9 (1915): 398–399.

• (with C. B. Root and H. Curl) ‘‘A comparison of the effects of breakfast, of no breakfast and of caffeine on work in an athlete and a non-athlete.’’ American Journal of Physiology 43 (1917): 371–394.

• (with W. Scalopino) ‘‘The influence of music upon electrocardiograms and blood pressure.’’ American Journal of Physiology 46 (1918): 35–38.

• ‘‘A micro-electrode and unicellular stimulation.’’ Biological Bulletin 40 (1921): 130–133.

• "Effects of music upon electrocardiograms and blood pressure.’’ Journal of Experimental Psychology 7 (1924): 213–224.

ENash96 (talk) 01:00, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

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