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Archbishop Richard J. Gushing entered Boston's St. Elizabeth Hospital for an hour-long prostate gland operation. This week he will undergo a kidney operation...
...which the 78-year-old Tiger added: "Life has taught me that there are two things that one can perfectly well do without-the prostate gland and the presidency of the republic." Actually, Clemenceau was irked because he himself had not been elected. He did not quite realize that he was too big for the job, therefore too controversial. The President is usually thought of not as a man of importance but as a man of distinction...
...calls "cancer, research with one eye on the cancer of man" -has led him into more than one chase after rainbows, such as a universal blood test for cancer. But it has also led him, after a trying period of roundabout research into the function of the prostate gland in dogs, to castration...
...harder doctors have tried to trans plant glands from one person to another, the more they have become convinced that their best chance is with the swift-growing tissues from an embryo or a very young baby. Last week Surgeon Julian A. Sterling of Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center reported that he had put this theory into practice and transplanted an entire thyroid gland, with its four tiny parathyroids attached, from an infant to an adult, and that the graft had worked well for five months. It was, he believed, the first case of its kind...
...Sterling waited a long time to find a suitable donor for the glands. Last fall, a baby was born so malformed that he could not long survive. His parents agreed that if he could not be saved, his thyroid gland should not be wasted. In his fourth week, the baby died. Within minutes, his thyroid and parathyroids were removed, with about an inch of each of the four main blood vessels attached. The operating room was got ready for Irma Miller, and, as soon as she arrived for an injection, she was whisked to the table. The surgeons decided...