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They submitted a cautious report to the pediatrics section of the New York Academy of Medicine. They warned that their work was still in its preliminary stage, was far from having produced a preventive for poliomyelitis. Chief obstacle to overcome: the hastening of maturity by the hormone extract. This they thought could be done by carefully regulating the dosage...
...Cancer. The pituitary gland's power to balance body growth suggested to Dr. William Susman of the University of Manchester that its extract might be useful against cancer. Dr. Susman, pathologist, had noticed during the autopsies of some 200 cancer victims that their pituitaries and pancreases were generally and suspiciously abnormal. The ill-conditioned pancreases suggested that the patient had been eating a great amount of carbohydrates, like sugar and bread. Dr. Susman verified this suspicion by irritating the skin of mice until cancers developed. Bread-fed mice showed cancers much more frequently than oat-&-cheese fed mice...
Pointing to an increase in University endowment funds and in operating expenses, a brief extract from the report of H. L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University, to the Board of Overseers, covering the operating expenses for the twelve months ended June 30, 1931, was made public yesterday afternoon at University Hall...
...Cure of malignant disease in patients with advanced carcinoma or sarcoma (cancer), in view of the experience of the patients of this series, cannot reasonably be expected to occur as a result of the use of the suprarenal cortex extract...
...benefits to be expected from use of the ... extract lie principally in improved appetite, improved muscle tone and bettered feeling of general well being of patients who are ambulatory or are not too far advanced toward a fatal termination of the disease...