Word: extractable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...England, he returned to Canada in 1920 and became a laboratory assistant at the Western University, London, Ont., where by chance he soon became interested in the internal secretions of the pancreas from the so-called " islands of Langerhans " (TiME, April 21), and began experimenting with methods of extracting the secretion. He secured a leave of absence and set up a laboratory in the home of a medical friend in Toronto. The experiments were then so promising that he resigned his position and shortly succeeded in securing a fairly pure extract by tying off the ducts of the pancreas...
...Public Health Service and Bureau of Fisheries investigators, seeking to extract insulin from the pancreatic glands of sharks and other fish, have so far been unsuccessful. The chief source of supply is still beef pancreas...
Impartial reports from the great industrial area show no slackening of German resistance, although the French have now " dug themselves in " and are able to extract coal from the mine heads in paying quantities. The most ghastly act of sabotage by the Germans was the blowing up of a Belgian train on the Hochfeld Bridge. Nine Belgians were killed outright, and 34 Belgians and nine Germans were wounded, many of whom are not expected to live. German towns in the vicinity of the disaster will be held responsible for damages. Families of dead and wounded were given a legal right...
...check for $150,000 to finance treatment of diabetes with insulin (TIME, April 21 and June 4). The purpose is to increase the number of free ward patients in American and Canadian hospitals who may be treated with insulin, and to teach practicing physicians the proper therapy of the extract...