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...banish gloom and bile...
...finding a substance which can be satisfactorily introduced into the gall-bladder and which permits X-ray photography of the organ later. The chemical name of the substance is calcium tetrabromphenolphthalein. The drug is injected into a vein. Three hours after the injection it begins to appear in the bile which collects in the gallbladder. Strangely enough, better photographs have been obtained from normal gallbladders than from those which are diseased, but this in itself serves as a means of diagnosis...
...William Held, of Chicago, who has returned from three months' study with Dr. Abder- halden, German gland specialist. He uses chimpanzees, but does not transplant their glands. The substance which brings on senility in humans, he says, is "cholin" (a toxic crystalline base allied to the bile). The chimpanzees are "decholinized" by a special process. They have not been penalized by the vices of civilization. Injections of this serum are claimed to restore the conditions of normal youth in the human body. In the near future, says Dr. Held, an age of 100 years will be considered mere infancy...
Finely educated men must be rare. Modern literature is a good-sized world in itself. The mere word "philosophy" stirs the bile of some folks. According to that accomplished humanist-philosopher, George Santayana, it has very largely come to mean "psychology" in the United States. Dean West must remember with delight the distinction attributed to President McCosh: "When two men are talking and one of them understands what the talk is about. that is metapheesics; when neither of them understands it, that is philosophy...
...meeting of the Harvard Medical Society will be held this evening at 8.15 in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Amphitheatre. Dr. D. N. Eisendrath will speak on "Anomalies of Bile Ducts and Vessels," and Dr. E. E. Tyzzer will lecture on "The Parasite of 'Black Head' in Turkeys, with Observations on the Transmission of the Disease." Medical students and physicians are cordially invited to attend the meeting...