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...more alert of the Cleveland citizenry know that Dr. George Washington Crile is one of the great men of surgery. They know that his method of blocking nerves to prevent the shock of operations (anoci-association) is as great a landmark in medicine as the first application of anesthetics, that he has improved the method of transfusing blood; that he is a world authority on goiter, that at his Cleveland Clinic they may get a physical examination of scholarly exactitude. Very few know that he and his associates have performed 2,670 experiments on animals, including man, and made countless...
...metaphysical and .the religious thoughts which this electric conception of life arouses, Dr. Crile leaves to others...
...even more specific, it is that one which can most readily be observed, the bacteriophage." The quotation is from a new book, The Bacteriophage and Its Behavior, by F. d'Herelle, M. D.* (Williams & Wilkins-$8.00). Dr. d'Herelle did not set out, as did Dr. Crile, to explain the nature of life or of death. His chief interest has been with diseases and their causes. He has dealt with what once was considered the lowest form of life- bacteria. He has ended by hypothesizing an even lower form, the protobe, which is neither animal nor vegetable,-simply...
...pressure is applied under the rib. At operation the swollen nerve ending and the tip of the rib may be removed, and in a correctly diagnosed and properly treated case, the cure of the pain is immediate and permanent. Thyroid gland. In the surgical section also, Dr. George W. Crile, Cleveland, discussed the present standing of knowledge of the thyroid gland. The abnormal conditions for which physicians are called include increased secretion from the gland, lessened secretion and abnormal growths. In the case of lessened secretion physicians treat the condition by giving small doses of iodin during youth or during...
Spleen. Following the address by Dr. Crile, Dr. William J. Mayo, Rochester, Minn., told the assembled surgeons of the present status of knowledge regarding the spleen. The exact function of this organ is even yet unknown, but it seems to be intimately associated with the manufacture and destruction of the elements of the blood and is therefore very important in relation to certain diseases of the blood...