Word: kountz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody Went Home. One place where the opportunities for adding health to age are being exploited with signal success is St. Louis. There, Dr. William B. Kountz, 60, a native Missourian, talked Washington University into putting up $300 to start a research program at the old city infirmary. In 1943 it was shifted to St. Louis Chronic Hospital, where about half the 1,600 patients are afflicted with the disorder of old age. Kountz has raised enough funds (including one $2,000,000 bequest) so that the university has never had to add to its original piddling investment...
...early days at the center," Dr. Kountz recalls, "the death rate was 15% to 20% a year. Nobody-and I mean nobody-was going home from the hospital. It was the old story: 'terminal care.' Now we have cut the death rate in half. Every month, ten to 15 elderly patients are returned to their homes and to industry, or to healthy retirement...
...still controversial sex-hormone regimen has played the biggest part in achieving this result. Explains Dr. Kountz: "The layman equates these hormones with sex, but equally important is the part they play in nutrition and the ability of the body to use the food it gets. As we grow old, if we don't have a proper hormone balance, the body burns up its own protein. We lose carbohydrates, fat and minerals as well. Even brain tissue is absorbed. We found that old people suffered this loss even if they were eating properly. Then we found out why-they...