Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pending solution of the Torres squabble, the University trustees declared a 12-day student recess. On the fourth day Governor Gore was taken to the hospital with a kidney ailment. Meanwhile a delegation of the coalition party which controls both Houses of the Legislature, arrived in Washington to assure President Roosevelt that they "backed up Governor Gore...
...midst of this strenuous activity Dr. Margaret Gladys Smith, assistant pathologist at Washington University School of Medicine, strolled into the laboratory of her superior, Dr. Howard Anderson McCordock, and casually picked up some slides of kidney tissue from dead encephalitis victims. Dr. Smith popped the slides under a microscope...
...weight of Mahatma Gandhi dropped to 93¼ lb. last week as he began one more "fast unto death" in Yerovda jail to force from the British Raj greater freedom to propagandize on behalf of India's "Untouchables." Alarmed when Faster Gandhi developed acute kidney trouble. Viceroy Earl Willingdon had him removed to a hospital, also released Mrs. Gandhi from jail to permit her to attend her husband...
...master, is only one of nine organs positively known to secrete hormones. Of these organs, the stomach, intestine and pancreas are not ''ductless glands." "Ductless glands" are the pituitary, the thyroid and the parathyroids (they lie in the neck), the adrenals (one rests on each kidney), the ovaries and the testes, all of which came in for attention fortnight ago at the meeting of the American Medical Association in Milwaukee...
Progress on Common Cold. Professor Alphonse Raymond Dochez of Columbia University considers the common cold perhaps the most important medical problem of the temperate zone. Regarded as trivial in itself, it may lead to sinus disease, bronchitis, pneumonia, heart or kidney disease. Dr. Dochez has been one of the front rank investigators of the common ailment. Last week he reported small progress. Vaccines in general have been disappointing, as have been extra vitamins and exposure to ultraviolet light. Careful analysis of hygienic habits, clothing, and exercise has failed to show that these are important factors in immunity to colds...