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...into the Japanese capital, set up shop in backrooms above the Kyo-bunkwan bookstore and published its pony-size, adless Far Eastern edition. Last week some 400 Japanese and foreigners came to see our new quarters, and to sip, among other drinks, such an inscrutable concoction as the "Monkey Gland" (gin, orange juice, D.O.M. and grenadine...
...Paul Niehans, a stony-faced, ramrod-straight Swiss physician told it, his theory and practice of "cellular therapy" sounded plausible enough. Thirty years ago he had begun transplanting parts of animals (glands, and organs such as liver and kidneys) into human beings to correct dwarfism, tetany,* and other disorders resulting from underactive glands. But in 1931 he was confronted with a woman dying of tetany and too weak for the operation. So Niehans injected a mass of cells from the parathyroid gland of a freshly slaughtered calf...
...Swedish Method. Dr. Schutte, a hormone specialist, discussed the case with Neurosurgeon Jorge A. Picaza. They decided that Senora R. might be relieved by a drastic operation developed by two Swedish doctors: removal of the pituitary gland. The Swedes thought it offered promise in some forms of cancer...
...master gland that secretes many of the body's most important hormones, the pituitary is hidden in a pocket of bone beneath the brain and behind the eyes, as though nature had done her best to protect it from injury - or from the surgeon. Several ways of getting at it have been devised, but none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora...
With spoon-ended forceps, Dr. Picaza removed the pituitary, piece by piece. Trying to make sure that no part of the gland would be left to regenerate, he cauterized the inside of the pocket thoroughly with formaldehyde...