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...Leonard George Rowntree of the Philadelphia Institute for Medical Research knew precisely what they were talking about when they reported these God-like doings in coop and cage last week. Chemists were still analyzing the substances used. But results were as clear as startling, and threw knowledge upon the gland which in cattle is called sweet bread, in children the thymus. The thymus, one of the potent ductless glands, lies just behind the breastbone immediately above the heart. Only occasion when the thymus becomes important is when, for no known reason, it grows big, causes a peculiar hoarse breathing...
...Manhattan, day Banker Kahn died, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology heard Boston's Drs. Herrmann Ludwig Blumgart and David Daniel Berlin tell how they had effected ''striking relief" from angina. A thyroid gland secretion regulates the rate at which the body converts food and oxygen into energy (metabolism). Drs. Blumgart and Berlin cut the thyroid gland from 20 angina patients, thus slowing down the rate of metabolism. Functioning normally at a lower level, the heart was not balked when called on for extra work. Not one of the 20 patients has since been wracked...
Mayo Clinic's Dr. E. C. Kendall was interested in another gland, the adrenal. When a derangement cuts off its flow of hormone, its possessor turns yellow, grows weak, wastes away. Called Addison's disease, this rare ailment was ordinarily fatal until physicians learned to supply the needed hormone from animal sources. But obtainable hormone is scarcer than the disease, and many a victim has died for lack of it. Last week Dr. Kendall reported that Mayo Clinic has isolated the hormone in pure crystalline form, analyzed its chemical composition. With this knowledge chemists may be able...
Stretched on an operating table in Baltimore's Sinai Hospital one morning last week lay a patient waiting to have his prostate gland removed. Instead of clapping an ether cone over his face, the anesthetist slipped a hypodermic needle into a vein in the crook of his elbow. In 20 seconds he lay unconscious, utterly limp. Six minutes after the operation was over he hoisted himself off the table, drank a glass of water, called for a "good big breakfast...
...Harvard Odontological Society will be held Friday, April 6, at the Harvard Dental School. The meeting will begin at 12.30 o'clock and will continue throughout the evening. Dr. Elliot C. Cutler, Professor of Surgery in the Medical School, will speak during the evening session on "The Thyroid Gland and its Relation to Angina Pectoris." During the remainder of the meeting papers of scientific nature will be read and demonstrations will be performed...