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Last week, for their work with cortisone and other adrenal hormones, Drs. Edward Calvin Kendall, Philip Showalter Hench and Tadeus Reichstein were awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine. In the three-way split, each will...
Last week the American College of Surgeons, meeting in Boston, heard of a chemical attack on tuberculous empyema which may make surgery unnecessary for some patients, more effective for others. Drs. Louis C. Roettig and Howard G. Reiser of Ohio State University's College of Medicine reported on a treatment using trypsin. An enzyme (one of the body's mysterious chemical catalysts), trypsin dissolves dead tissue, but seems to leave the living tissue in the chest unharmed...
...electric heart reviver, developed by Drs. John C. Callaghan and Wilfred G. Bigelow of the University of Toronto. An electrode is inserted through a vein to within an inch of the heart's pace-setting node. If the heart has stopped, electric pulses set it beating again; if it is faltering, they make it beat more regularly. Used so far on animals, the "pacemaker" is ready for human tests...
...lung-collapsing operation in which parts of the patient's ribs are cut out, and turned over so that they lie in a concave instead of convex position. They are sewn to the ends from which they were cut, where they cement themselves in place. Worked out by Drs. Richard H. Overholt and Leo J. Kenney of Brookline, Mass., the one-shot operation would take the place of an exhausting and expensive series now sometimes needed to collapse a tuberculous lung...
Tested in this way, by Drs. W. F. Libby and J. R. Arnold of the University of Chicago, one sample of charcoal from a buried campsite in Schuyler County proved to be about 5,400 years old. Most previous estimates had given the Indians only 2,000 years in New York State, but Dr. Ritchie's finding seemed to indicate that rather primitive redmen lived there in 3450 B.C., when the neolithic inhabitants, of northern Europe were not much more advanced...