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...acetylcholine. Sir Henry found this evanescent substance, when isolated from the body, to be a colorless, odorless, crystalline powder. It causes capillaries and small arteries to dilate, thus lowering blood pressure and slowing the action of an overworking heart. It relaxes smooth muscles, thus relieving spasms of the bladder, ureters, uterus, intestines...
...throw light on causes rather than provide materials" (TIME, May 1, 1933). Nonetheless, acetylcholine, typical object of what Nobel Prizewinners Dale & Loewi call autopharmacology, is being used by enterprising doctors to treat arterial hypertension, inflamed arteries, gangrene of feet and hands, profuse sweating in tuberculosis, flaccidity of the bladder and intestines, bed sores...
Died. Dr. Karl August Werner, 60, Supreme Nazi Prosecutor, famed for his thundering accusations at the 1933 Reichstag fire trial; after a bladder operation; in Berlin...
...advertisement for his bandages, Mr. Camp, after being quoted a price reputed to be $20.000, told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From these projections artists made tracings which were used by sculptors to model the organs which actually went into the figure. The viscera as well...
Died. Lennington ("Len") Small, 73, twice Governor of Illinois; after a bladder operation; in Kankakee, Ill. During his first (1921-25) term he was tried for pocketing the interest accruing to surplus State money, was sensationally acquitted and reelected for another term (1925-29) with the loyal support of the State's countryfolk who were grateful for Small's hard roads program. In Illinois' last primary he once more sought the gubernatorial nomination, was defeated by Lawyer Charles Wayland Brooks (TIME, April...