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...London Sir George Gibson Mitcheson, M.P. told the Daily Mail that he thought the charity-run Hosa Laboratories which he founded had discovered a good treatment for cancer. Treatment consists of daily subcutaneous injections of an extract of parathyroid glands (small glands close to the thyroid). Name of the extract...
...laboratory work was done by James Henry Thompson and 30 assistants, with the collaboration of 200 hospitals and 1,200 physicians. So far, the injections have been used only on hopeless cases. Said Sir George: "We are anxious not to raise any false hopes, but the results of our extract . . . have been encouraging...
This is not the first time a patient has lived after having a foreign body in his heart. In World War I, surgeons succeeded in removing several bullets from soldiers' hearts. But their most famous case was a British officer who underwent a long operation to extract a bullet from his heart. Finally the surgeon gave up. The officer was still alive at last report. The tip of the bullet had worked its way into one of his heart chambers, swung like a clapper in a small bell with every heartbeat...
...Male and female rats which were given small doses of pituitary extract produced smart offspring...
...Alexander developed her serum in 1938. It is made by injecting rabbits with Hemophilus Infiuenzae (bacteria responsible for the disease), then making an extract of the rabbit's blood...