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...operation on the nervous system, such as Cleveland's Surgeon George Washington Crile advocates, prevented high blood pressure in dogs whose kidney arteries Dr. Goldblatt clamped. Excising the adrenals prevented and cured the high blood pressure. But no adrenalectomized creature, including man, can live more than a few months. So Dr. Goldblatt, with a good explanation for high blood pressure in his notebook, does not know what to do about...
Thyroidectomies. Another sobering surgical discussion at Philadelphia last week came from Dr. Frank Howard Lahey of Boston who, like the Mayos and Dr. George Washington Crile, built up a great surgical clinic on a foundation of excised goitres. Dr. Lahey and his associates have performed 15,200 thyroidectomies since the War, have had only in deaths. Last week Dr. Lahey told how he achieved that happy record...
SKYWAYS TO A JUNGLE LABORATORY-Grace Crile-Norton...
Skyways to a Jungle Laboratory is the travel diary kept by Mrs. Crile of the expedition of her husband, Dr. George Crile, famed U. S. surgeon [TIME, Oct. 19], to Maji Moto Camp in the Great Rift Valley of Tanganyika. Writing little of the scientific achievements of the camp, Mrs. Crile gives good descriptions of Africa from the air, long accounts of the hunting exploits of the members of the party, illustrates her book with 51 good but conventional photographs...
Before the Southwest Clinical Society Conference in Kansas City, Cleveland's famed Surgeon George Washington Crile told how he & friends killed 220 different animals in Africa last winter to investigate their adrenal glands. Because the lion's adrenals weighed 1/11,,000th of its total weight, Surgeon Crile declared that its "sympathetic complex" made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis...