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Professor Hartman, 47, physiologist at the University of Buffalo, has separated a hormone from the covering, or cortex, of the adrenal glands. He calls his hormone ''cortin." To make one ounce of cortin requires the adrenals of 130 cattle.
Last week a Chicago reporter of the United Press discovered a Mrs. Andrew Nelson, wife of a workless carpenter and mother of six, dying of dread Addison's disease. Her physician, Dr. Richard Torpin, remarked that extract of adrenal cortex might prolong her life. But the extract was scarce, impossible...
Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber of California may operate a cancer research laboratory at Huntington, L. I., but they may treat no patients there with their adrenal cortex extract (TIME, May 25 et ante). So decreed the New York Board of Social Welfare last week. The Californians...
Dr. Carlos Chagas and the late Dr. Oswaldo Cruz of Rio de Janeiro traced the disease in Brazil. The "barber bug" sucks the blood of armadillos and other rodents infected with the local trypanosomes. Then the bug bites humans, depositing the trypanosomes in the wound. The parasites twist through the...
Although Dr. Hartwell & friends who last week opposed opening "The Monastery" as a clinic "do not for a minute question the sincerity of Drs. Coffey and Humber in believing they have something of value," the critics "do question the way they have handled their work." The New York men are...