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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week one of Dr. Warthin's associates, Professor Carl Vernon Weller, and one of his young graduates, Dr. Isador Jerome Hauser, published a third analysis of the G family which, now in its sixth Michigan generation, numbers 305 living and dead. In the American Journal of Cancer Drs. Hauser and Weller note that all members of this family have good reason to fear being stricken by the age of 25. Of the 174 living and dead who reached that age, 41 (23.6%) developed cancers of one sort or another. One noteworthy fact about this ill-fated family...
...younger generations of the other lines the affliction seems to be lessening its burden. But Drs. Hauser and Weller grimly warn: "This may be more apparent than real. Not until the full effect of age becomes known in the third and fourth generations can this be known...
...Drs. deTakats and Murray agree that speed of diagnosis and operation is essential. Says Dr. Murray: "Next to internal and external hemorrhage, embolism of the peripheral arteries is one of the most urgent surgical emergencies. Acute appendicitis, intestinal obstruction, perforated viscus, etc., while better treated at the first possible moment, usually will not be followed by the disastrous results from waiting six to eight hours that may be expected from neglect of an embolus for the same length of time...
What had caused the trouble in Mr. Morgan's case was Drs. Denny and Jessup's problem. With his patient secluded and at ease in his own home, Dr. Denny cheerily declared: "Mr. Morgan is improving. He should be all right in about two or three weeks...
...keep them tense for several seconds to refresh them. They become fit for another round of fighting or another spurt of running in a much shorter time than if permitted to relax or if stimulated with a hypodermic injection of adrenalin. The reinvigoration is due, theorized Cornell's Drs. S. A. Guttman, R. G. Horton and Davis Truxton Wilber, to either: 1) the release of a potent chemical, acetylcholine, by nerve ends in the tired muscles, or; 2) a sudden excess of calcium in those muscles...