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George W. Thorn, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics, has discovered a way of keeping alive persons whose adrenal glands have been completely removed, by administering cortisone. He described his treatment at the 64th annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians Tuesday.
As for hardening of the arteries, there may be some connection to pituitary and adrenal function, but there is no clear evidence that ACTH therapy, as it is administered, either produces or aggravates the condition. I call this error to your attention because it would be a pity if patients...
Spider & Snake. By stimulating the adrenal glands during a crisis, the hormone injections serve to forestall most of the early complications (shock, pain, fever, infection, impairment of kidney function, loss of body fluids) which make burns most dangerous. As the cure progresses, the increased glandular activity helps still further by...
Last week, as a result, the struggle to stimulate his avarice and his adrenal glands, channel his capacity for hero worship-and, at times, to threaten him subtly with the horrors of being a social outcast (see RADIO)-tied up whole brigades of high-powered executives and fortunes in speculative...
Last week, for their work with cortisone and other adrenal hormones, Drs. Edward Calvin Kendall, Philip Showalter Hench and Tadeus Reichstein were awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine. In the three-way split, each will get $10,571.