Word: goiter
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...Earle M. Chapman of Boston reported 35 out of 46 cases of goiter cured...
Last week Red Motley preferred to look at the brighter side. "We've cleaned house as far as advertisers are concerned," he boomed. "We've thrown the truss boys, kidney-pill artists and goiter-curers out of the sheet, and have replaced them with such Class A advertisers as General Foods, Arm & Hammer and Sunshine Biscuits." (Last week's Parade also had a lurid full-page ad for a book bargain, Bachelor's Quarters and One of Cleopatra's Nights...
...magic pile, both for studying diseases and for curing them. Radioactive iodine, for instance, follows ordinary iodine through the human body. Its rate of accumulation in the thyroid gland (shown by holding a radiation counter near the throat) diagnoses accurately the condition of the gland in goiter and related diseases (see MEDICINE...
...into its various chemical components by Dr. Cohn, the invention of an apparatus for transferring whole blood within the battle lines by Majors Emerson and Ebert, the gathering of much evidence that cancer is caused by glandular disturbances by Drs. Lieberstein, Hill and Feiser, and a new treatment for goiter by Dr. Astwood...
...Crile's skill brought him such patients as E. H. Harriman and William Randolph Hearst, thousands of others from all over the U.S.-he personally removed about 25,000 goiters. (Goiter removal is most frequent operation at Minnesota's Mayo and Boston's Lakey Clinics.) He devised his own operations for cancer of the lip and prolapse of the uterus, and advocated an operation on the coeliac ganglion (nickel-size nerve center above the kidneys) to bring down high blood pressure...