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Died. Brand Whitlock, 65, author, onetime (1919-22) U. S. Ambassador to Belgium; following a bladder operation; in Cannes, France. Reporting in Chicago and law in Toledo interested him in politics, led to his election in 1905 as a reform mayor of Toledo. In 1913 he was appointed Minister to Belgium; in 1919. Ambassador. He was credited with saving many a Belgian life by persuading Brussels not to resist Germany's Wartime invasion, gained fame by his efforts to stay the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell...
Ketones. Infections of the kidney and bladder tract are hard for doctors to treat. Drs. Arnold E. Osterberg and Henry F. Helmholz of the Mayo Clinic reported experiments showing that ketonic bodies in the blood, such as acetone, diacetic acid and beta-oxybutyric acid, will cure such infections if generated in sufficient quantities. Best diet for stimulating ketone production is high in fat, low in proteins and sugar. Ideal fat-protein-sugar proportion...
Died. Count Ilya Tolstoy, 67, second son of the late great Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, lecturer, author (Visions, Reminiscences of My Father); of heart and gall-bladder disorders; in New Haven, Conn. After the 1917 revolution he returned to Russia from a U. S. lecture tour, was driven out again by Bolsheviks. With his wife, a Russian emigree whom he married in 1920 in Newark, he lived in the Connecticut hills, tilled his own soil. In 1926 he helped with the screen adaptation of his father's Resurrection, played in it the part of the cobbler-philosopher...
...York City. Soon he was made assistant to the president of Williams College, whence he was graduated in 1909. He went to teach at Harvard Law in 1917. Last January Mrs. Sayre, who had long served on the executive committee of the Massachusetts Democracy, died after a gall bladder operation (TIME...
...Francisco's Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey, he addressed the American College of Surgeons last month on his method of draining the kidneys through the intestines in cases of cancerous bladder, and on his "surgical quarantine" of healthy tissue during treatment (TIME...