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...where for more than four years they lived in exile (TIME, June 16, 1930). Taking the Blue Train to Nice, they were up until dawn, dancing in the streets at a city fete. Next day His Majesty, 42, motored out to the villa of famed Dr. Serge Voronoff, monkey-gland rejuvenator...
...King Carol is much too young to need rejuvenation," explained the doctor afterward. "He looks fine and is as strong as a bull. My monkey-gland experiments interest him greatly, however, and he inspected my monkeys during his visit, which was prompted chiefly by his desire to see an old friend. He doesn't need my services...
...formidable nature of this operation, an effort is now being made to develop a modification of the splanchnic nerve resection," said Dr. Adson who explained that he removes only a section of the twelfth pair of ribs, cuts a few handy sympathetic nerves, excises a chunk from each adrenal gland...
Sugars & Fats- Diabetes is due to improper functioning of the pancreas, a small spongy gland in the abdomen which pours certain digestive juices into the intestines. In addition, the pancreas secretes insulin, a hormone which goes directly into the blood and helps turn carbohydrates into energy. To compensate for lack of insulin production in diabetics, doctors for the past dozen years have given such patients hypodermic doses of drugstore insulin. In addition some doctors order them to take large amounts of fat with their meals, with the idea of resting an inefficient pancreas. Other doctors order large amounts of sugars...
...severed from my body and delivered to the said Dr. Gushing." At the Yale Medical School famed Brain Surgeon Gushing, father-in-law of James Roosevelt, said he was already working on Mrs. Glogau's brain which had been marred by a tumor of the pituitary gland...