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...established scientific medical aid. Still, their application is general. They affect some organs and tissues adversely as they benefit other organs or tissues. In electrical therapy we can concentrate on the particular without affecting other parts of the patient. With it we can increase or decrease blood circulation, gland secretion, nerve tension, muscle tension, metabolic change...
...filled and a tiny iron-filled glass ball agitated by an electromagnet to stir the contents of the tiny glass vessels, Drs. David Glick and Gerson Ravinson Biskind of San Francisco made micro-analyses of microscopic bits of human tissue. Thus they learned that the middle part of pituitary gland contains Vitamin C (found in oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, spinach) in more concentrated form than any plant or other animal tissue. The fore part of the pituitary, the adrenals and the ovaries also contain heavy Vitamin C concentrations. Concentration in the ovary reaches its height as the ovum ripens. That...
...earth, experimenting with Chemist Ruzicka's artificial androsterone, have told him enough to warrant his claiming: "By the injection of the hormone, normal sex desires can be awakened and will be accompanied by certain physical changes. The hormone, further, can be used in reducing enlargement of the prostate gland; common in elderly...
...Rockefeller Institute experimenters last week had no such fantastic ideas. They believe that knowledge of the human body is the sum of knowledge of each one of its parts. Hence they intend to study one organ at a time in their machine. Thus they hope to make the thyroid gland, the adrenals and each of the other endocrine glands yield their hormones in pure form and in such abundance that endocrinologists will no longer be obliged to haunt slaughterhouses for their supplies. Thus, too, they hope to watch hardening developing in arteries, goitres in thyroids, tuberculosis in lungs, rheumatic fever...
Last week, after a cheery visit from the King and Queen, Princess Mary went to a private sanatorium to have her goitre out. A curving incision was made into the front of her neck. By lifting the flap of skin, the surgeon exposed the thyroid gland lying around the windpipe, excised almost all of it. He took special pains not to damage Mary's laryngeal nerves, which might cause her to choke to death, nor her parathyroid glands, which might throw her into spasms. Final step in the thyroidectomy was to bring the edges of the divided skin...