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...three-days-old baby, unable to breathe, and kept alive by artificial respiration of oxygen, was saved at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children when X-ray treatment to reduce an abnormal thymus gland was applied under the direction of Dr. Mary Halton. The thymus is a small ductless gland situated at the base of the neck, whose functions are imperfectly understood, though its secretion or " hormone " is believed to influence children's growth and bone formation. It is present in children from before birth until puberty...
...present case the thymus was found by X-ray to be much enlarged, and appeared to interfere with the breathing. X-ray applications withered the gland, and in a few hours the baby breathed normally. Physicians are interested in the theory that thymus abnormality may be a possible cause of the death of " blue babies " immediately after birth...
Koppanyi, still in his twenties, was a student of Dr. Hans Przibram, the great professor of experimental zoology at Vienna, and worked in the same laboratory with Prof. Eugen Steinach, gland implanter. The work of all these men is gravely hampered by lack of funds and equipment, as is generally true in the laboratories of Central and Eastern Europe today...
William Blair Bell is a prominent surgeon and professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the University of Liverpool. He has a high reputation in his specialties, is an authority on the pituitary gland, is author of several standard medical works, including The Sex Complex, has held professorships and won prizes at important hospitals and medical schools in London, Durham, Belfast. That he has not made public his discovery is because he desired to treat many more patients before submitting it to the medical and surgical professions. Dr. Bell's professional standing is in itself strong presumptive evidence...
...Eugen Steinach, Viennese gland surgeon, in an interview with a foreign correspondent of The New York Evening Post, deplores the exaggerations of popular gossip, and disclaims the implication that his operation will necessarily " create a robust flapper of any wrinkled, decripit old lady." Notwithstanding, his clinic has become a Mecca for people from all parts of the world who feel the weight of years...