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...Francisco surgeons, Walter Bernard Coffey, 62, and John Davis Humber, 35, of the Southern Pacific (Railroad's) General Hospital, able men both, deliberately told the newspapers that they were using extracts of the adrenal cortex on human cases of cancer, with promising results. Editors naturally "played up" their story, and readers, as naturally, inferred that here was a definite cure for cancer. They rushed in multitudes to San Francisco. Last week Drs. Coffey and Humber could not attend the hordes of miserable comers who applied for treatment at the General Hospital. Many they found it necessary to treat...
Corferrol, a compound of the extract of the cortex of suprarenal glands with iron and pyrol, experimentally applied to the destruction of cancerous growths in animals by smothering the growths with excess oxygen...
...removed considerable of its sympathetic nervous system. This is the network of nerves which regulate the automatic functions of the body, as digestion, breathing. It is far older (biologically) and far more essential to life than that part of the brain in which conscious thought takes place-the cortex. The cat thus operated upon by Dr. Cannon lacked many normally automatic responses to stimuli. A fearsome object, as a dog, did not make it bristle its fur in either fright or anger; its body temperature did not react to counterbalance changes of room temperatures. The experiment thus proves surgically what...
Four venturies unroll to provide a political pantomine of the moment. Spain has asked the Government of Mexico for the bones of Hernando Cortex. The conqueror of Peru and Mexico, arch-slave driver, arch-adventurer, first buried near Seville, was removed later, according to a wish he had expressed, across the Atlantic. He was laid near the scenes of his crassest cruelty; and has lain there until history and romance have bleached his fame, torn off the invincible armor, and have feigned, at least, to see "stout Cortez", "silent, upon a peak in Darien...
...Spain, bereft of the empire he conquered, requests the remains of the hero. But this takes the story into the realms of absurdity and intrigue, in the first place, it is not at all certain where Cortex was buried. In the second place, Mexico, for sentimental reason as well as others, does not wish to give him up; lastly it is claimed that the gentleman was not a Spaniard but an Italian. The last claim brings the Italian nobility on the stage...