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Last week Drs. Samuel Kleinberg and Herman Solomon Lieberman of Manhattan offered a reliable indicator. On an x-ray picture of the child's torso they draw a line through the centres of both hips. Then they draw a line through the roof of each hip socket (acetabulum). The angles formed by the roof lines crossing the centre line the doctors call the acetabular index. In normal hips the angles measure between 20° and 27.5°. If the angles exceed 27.5°, dislocation probably will occur...
Overactivity of the vagus nerve is tied up with overactivity of the thyroid. Goitres, said Drs. Nahum and Hoff last week, "change the heart in such a way as to make it susceptible to overactivity of the vagus nerve. Some patients are naturally subject to vagus action. Some develop it reflexly from high blood pressure and it is probable that all hyper-thyroids are sensitive to the vagus nerve. In this way, overactivity of this nerve develops, which precipitates auricular fibrillation...
...prevent ventricular fibrillation and sure death, Drs. Nahum and Hoff advise elimination of poisons, physical disturbances and excitements; use of barbiturates or other drugs which reduce the heart's activity; administration of oxygen. In extremity, a surgeon might cut the nerves which cause the adrenal glands to excrete their exciting adrenalin. But drugstores now carry acetylcholine, the vagus hormone, with which a desperate doctor can often quiet ventricular fibrillation, set the heart pulsating smoothly again...
Last week three University of Chicago doctors announced that they had discovered a cheaper and quicker method of certifying pregnancy. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer and Arthur Herman Klawans use a little carp-like fish which costs only 30?. Within 24 hours after a female bitterling is placed in a quart of fresh water, which also contains two teaspoonfuls of urine from a pregnant woman, there grows out from the belly of the bitterling a long tubular appendage, called an oviduct, through which in the ordinary course of nature she would expel her own eggs. As soon...
...Stockholm. Last week on the same day that Norway's Crown Prince Olaf watched Premier Mowinckel award Mr. Henderson in Oslo, King Gustaf V of Sweden awarded the other Nobel winners: Literature, scrubby-bearded Italian Dramatist Luigi Pirandello (TIME, Nov. 19); Medicine, split between three U. S. physicians, Drs. George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy and George Hoyt Whipple who found that a liver diet helped pernicious anemia (TIME, Nov. 5) ; Chemistry, Professor Harold C. Urey of Columbia University for his discovery of "heavy hydrogen" (TIME...