Word: adrenaller
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Georgetown University's Dr. O. Benwood Hunter Jr. reported that cortisone and ACTH will do this in most cases. The level of the mother's hormone secretions is carefully checked as pregnancy advances, and if it indicates that the baby's red blood cells are...
Meanwhile, before last week's sessions broke up, the experts got news of yet another potential medical tool. Nobel Prizewinner Tadeus Reichstein of Basel University announced that he had isolated a powerful adrenal hormone which he provisionally called "electrocortin." Since the newly isolated hormone undoubtedly plays a part in...
¶One patient was getting no better, and in fact was being kept alive only by frequent injections of streptomycin. After a while he became so angry at being repeatedly jabbed with the needle that his adrenal output soared back to normal. Now he is recovering.
¶Another, also with underactive adrenals, was about to have a small segment of a lung removed. Fellow patients kidded him into believing that he was going to lose the whole lung. His undue fear sent his adrenal output up. And this helped him through the operation in good shape...
There is no such quick treatment for the resentful patients with chips on their shoulders and excessive adrenal output. But their tensions and hormones can sometimes be reduced gradually with the sympathy-and-understanding treatment from doctors, nurses and family.