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Last fortnight in The Lancet, Drs. Deanesly & Parkes reported the results of experiments made on the hunch. They anesthetized five immature male guinea pigs, made slits in their skins, pushed a disc-shaped ovarian hormone tablet, weighing from eight to 16 milligrams, into each slit, and stitched up the incision. There was no local reaction but a tight coat of connective tissue began to grow around the tablets. After six months the guinea pigs' male sex organs had atrophied, their rudimentary male mammary glands had become greatly enlarged. The tablets were then removed, dried, weighed. It was found that...
Last fortnight a similar and even prettier experiment was described by Dr. William Thalheimer of Manhattan, and Drs. Donald Young Solandt and Charles Herbert Best of Toronto, in The Lancet, British medical journal. They reported removing the kidneys from a dog, thus preventing him from excreting the nitrogenous poisons carried in his blood stream. Several days later, when his blood was filled with urea, they anesthetized him, connected an artery and vein to a vein and artery of a healthy, anesthetized dog. The small connecting pipes were attached to a specially designed pump which exchanged more than six quarts...
...legal arrangements. Both husband and wife must sign a joint agreement permitting the wife to bear the child of a third person. The identity of the donor is kept secret, and if he is married his wife must give her written consent as well. Other practical suggestions made by Drs. Frances Isobel Seymour and Alfred Koerner of Manhattan : 1) A physician should never consent to use a relative as donor. Too many emotional complications may follow. 2) A donor's blood group should correspond to that of the husband so that legal disproof of the child's paternity...
...Meantime, in Ohio, Drs. Stepner and Taplits announced that their hemophilia research (TIME, Sept. 5) was at a standstill because of a shortage of 1) funds, 2) hemophiliacs...
...Zenith Radio Corp. and long a believer in thought transference, saw a chance to prove his belief in a big way by putting ESP on the air. Zenith sponsored network radio experiments in the Rhine technique, put the tests in the scientific hands of Northwestern University's Psychologists Drs. Louis Deal Goodfellow and Robert Harvey Gault...