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...inner brain can now be X-rayed accurately. The new process, by which a mixture of gelatine and an iodine compound is injected directly into cavities of the brain, was reported last week at Manhattan's Academy of Medicine by Drs. Harold H. Lefft and John Arthur MacLean Jr. of New York Post-Graduate Hospital...
Local "freezing" instead of general anesthesia has cut the death rate in the amputation of gangrenous limbs from 83% to 18%, Drs. Frederick Madison Allen and Lyman W. Crossman of New York City's Welfare Hospital reported last week. The three-stage operation: 1) the limb's blood supply is cut off by a tourniquet; 2) it is anesthetized by cooling to just above freezing with a refrigerating coil; 3) it is amputated. The low temperature reduces post operative infection...
...members of the group, Drs. Ogden and Richards, began the work years ago with their now famous Meaning of Meaning. In the years that followed, Dr. Richards became known as one of the world's foremost logicians and literary critics. Dr. Ogden continued his study of meaning, and whether he called it semantics of othology, many scholars regarded it as the empty day-dreaming of a deluded coterie. But orthology proved to have a practical application when it cold logic was focused on the English language. Dr. Ogden discovered that effective communication in our language is possible with only...
...Drs. Lauretta Bender, Helen Harrington, Ralph S. Muckenfuss, Tracy Jackson Putnam, Albert A. Rosner, Lewis D. Stevenson, Hubert S. Howe...
...original work, but serves as a testing field and improving plant for new theories. It is remarkable for its quick application of new discoveries to bedside practice. Some of its outstanding contributions to medicine: isolation of thyroid hormone (Dr. Edward Calvin Kendall); perfection of oxygen masks for aviators (Drs. Walter Meredith Boothby, William Randolph Lovelace II & Arthur Bulbulian); cutting fibers of the sympathetic nervous system to treat circulatory disturbances of hands and feet (Dr. Alfred Washington Adson); use of iodine in certain thyroid diseases (Dr. Henry Plummer...