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...spleen is a ductless lymphatic-like gland touching the top of the left kidney. It manufactures white blood cells and, when necessary, red blood cells. Its removal does not cause serious consequences...
Previous misinterpretation was on his reactivation work. Before Serge Voronoff of Paris developed a sex gland transplantation technique. Dr. Steinach had worked in that field. It led him to ligating the vas deferens in men and injecting female sex hormones into women, procedures which reactivated their entire systems. Journalists incorrectly called this rejuvenation...
Paris was more acutely prostate gland conscious, last week, than at any time since Georges ("Le Tigre") Clemenceau had his removed over five years ago. It was now a case of dealing with the prostate gland of Raymond ("Le Lion") Poincare. At the time of his resignation as Prime Minister the illness of the "Lion of Lorraine" was described as "gastric fever'' (TIME, July 29). Last week, however, the precise facts were made known by Surgeons Marion and Cosset...
...point of dressing himself unaided, even buttoned his small feet into the high, old fashioned shoes affected by many a French elder statesman. At his age?he will be 69 this month ?M. Poincare knew that there was nothing unwonted, nothing crucial about an inflammation of the gland he was about to lose. Not strictly speaking an organ of sex, as ignorants suppose, the prostate, nestling just beneath the bladder, supplies certain useful but not vital secretions, is observed to be peculiarly liable to deterioration in old men, to communicable infection in young. Last week, yielding only...
...Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four physicians who pledged them selves to give one-fourth of their incomes to its support. Most noted of the founders is Dr. George W. Crile, inventor of "nerve-block" anesthesia and improvements in blood transfusion technique, an expert in thyroid gland and respiratory system operations. At the time of the explosion he was performing an operation in the Clinic hospital in a nearby building. He was not told of the accident until the operation was completed. Still in his white gown and operating cap he rushed to the scene...