Word: adrenaller
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dr. Raab recovered from his experiment. The symptoms he had experienced gave him added evidence for a new theory of angina pectoris: that the bad actors in angina are the adrenal glands. The adrenals, which cap each kidney, are "second-wind" glands, spill forth energy-producing juices in time of...
It seemed to Dr. Raab that angina might be licked if the adrenals of angina patients could be prevented from flooding the body with adrenalin. After a decade of experiment he finally worked out the idea of weakening adrenal tissue by Xray.
Dr. Young is most widely known for an operation commonly used for relieving prostate trouble, which afflicts one out of every five middle-aged men. He makes an incision in front of the anus and "shells out" the enlarged lobes of the prostate. His punch operation started the removal of...
Three years ago Professor Harry Goldblatt of Western Reserve announced that a large proportion of hypertension is caused by a clogging of the kidneys. When he clamped the kidney arteries of dogs and cut off their blood supply, an unknown "pressor substance" was produced which irritated the adrenal glands, capping...
At Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. John Scudder has tried an extract of the adrenal cortex (eschatin) to save patients already in shock after operations and severe burns. In a newly published text (Shock-Lippincott-$5.50) he reported that cortical extract snatched 14 persons from death after transfusions and...