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...Caxton's History of Troy, first book printed in the English language, to J. P. Morgan's privately printed prayer book. The exhibition was not to honor the books themselves, but the slender blonde woman who had rebound all of them with her own hands: Marguerite Duprez Lahey...
Bookbinder Lahey, a good friend of Morgan Librarian Belle da Costa Greene, did her first work for the elder Morgan in 1911. Employing no assistants, she works seven hours a day at her task, scrapes her own skins, sews pages, pastes, mounts, presses, tools and letters all the bindings. For decoration she uses the purest gold leaf, occasionally platinum. For leather she prefers Cape Levant from the backs of goats that have run wild on the Cape of Good Hope for seven years. A surprise among the priceless rarities in Miss Lahey's exhibition was the original typescript...
Thyroidectomies. Another sobering surgical discussion at Philadelphia last week came from Dr. Frank Howard Lahey of Boston who, like the Mayos and Dr. George Washington Crile, built up a great surgical clinic on a foundation of excised goitres. Dr. Lahey and his associates have performed 15,200 thyroidectomies since the War, have had only in deaths. Last week Dr. Lahey told how he achieved that happy record...
...goitre produces more thyroid hormone than the body requires, observed Dr. Lahey, causes more energy to be dissipated than the body can afford to expend. Immediate source for this energy is sugar in the blood. The blood gets its supply from sugar stored in the liver. When the liver's store runs out, a thyroid crisis is apt to develop. Delirium, vomiting, diarrhea, temperatures of 105 degrees to 106 degrees ensue. Infections such as tonsillitis or abscessed teeth accentuate this condition. Explained Dr. Lahey...
Soon as Dr. Lahey recognizes the approach of thyroid crisis in a patient he takes "combative measures not only toward control of hyperthyroidism by iodine, rest and sedatives, but also toward protection of the liver by the continuous intravenous injection of fluids and large amounts of glucose. The result is that our clinical experience has been much more gratifying. It has even been possible in many cases not only to extricate the patients from a thyroid crisis, but to operate upon them after a period of preparation of two to three weeks with a very reasonable mortality rate...