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Since the recent use of adrenalin to resuscitate adults at the point of death from shock (TiME, April 14), the extract has again been employed with apparent success to start the life processes in four babies in the metropolitan district of New York, who were born dead or too weak to live. Keen interest in these cases is being displayed by medical men, and further study of the possibilities of adrenalin has been stimulated. At some hospitals it has been used extensively, though not specifically for this purpose. The delicate operation is attended by danger on account of the piercing...
...blood has now been reduced to normal, less than 1%, he has gained 50 pounds, is able to eat a generous diet, and takes vigorous exercise. Insulin was evolved by Drs. J. J. R. Macleod and F. G. Banting, of the physiological department, University of Toronto. It is extracted from the pancreas glands of sheep or beeves, and is named from the " islands of Langerhans"-little spots of vascular tissue through which the internal secretion of the pancreas passes into the blood. In normal health this secretion regulates the assimilation of sugar in the diet. Production of insulin...
...most ambitious and therefore the most interesting program is that of President Eliot. Educators agree to the general proposition that schools should produce better and more intelligent citizens. Is this to be achieved by turning out stock products who can extract the square root of 1492 in three seconds, or by giving pupils, as Dr. Eliot desires, a training of all the senses? The pupil must, of course, know his arithmetic, reading and spelling, history, geography, and natural sciences, taught in their simple relations. But Dr. Eliot's program goes farther: it seeks to awaken the pupil's interest...
Adrenalin is a common drug used to stimulate heart action. It is an extract from the adrenal glands of sheep...
Literature is self-expression. It is up to the reader to extract the meaning, not up to the writer to offer it. If the author writes everything that pops into his head-or that is supposed to pop into the head of a given character-that is all that should be asked. Lucidity is no part of the auctorial task...