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...between the representatives of the Mexican and the American workers in El Paso, reference was made to the political campaign in Mexico, and an expression of the general feeling of all those present in regard to General Calles was embodied in the form of a resolution unanimously adopted . . . An extract from this resolution follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Labor's Candidate | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

...Starr, Toronto, described the possibilities of thyroid therapy. Cretins (goiterous dwarf defectives) can be increased in stature six inches in a year by treatment with goat thyroid extract. A race of tall men may be bred. 2) Ethylene, the new anaesthetic (TIME, March 17) has been used in 907 cases in Chicago clinics, only one resulting fatally. 3) Sir William I. de Courcy Wheeler, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, was a special guest. 4) Dr. "Will" Mayo (TIME, May 19) was a prominent figure, as usual. He made an address summarizing surgical progress. 5) Dr. Albert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Human Machine | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...placed on insulin to protect one against the ravages of self-indulgence. Curbed cravings cannot now be satisfied with impunity. Insulin cannot be purchased to be taken with one's meals." He does not impugn the therapeutic value of insulin, but emphasizes the fact that it is a powerful extract which should be administered only by a physician familiar with its use, and that a constant surplus of sweets cannot be neutralized indefinitely even by regular dosage of insulin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: McCann's Warning | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

...Funk-Brentano of Paris is credited with the discovery of new methods of "twilight sleep" (painless childbirth) differing from the scopolanium method now widely in use. They consist of injections of extract from the pituitary gland (a small oval body attached to the brain near the optic nerve) combined with progressive doses of chloroform. The woman retains a degree of consciousness and speech, but is not aware of pain. Eight hundred deliveries have been made by these methods at the Boucicault Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Method | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

Hypophysary extract combined with chloroform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point with Pride: Sep. 3, 1923 | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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