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...Edward Mellanby, 54-year-old secretary of Britain's Medical Research Council, is famed for his wit, his wife Lady May (Britain's outstanding authority on tooth decay) and his work on nutrition and pneumonia. In The Lancet last week, Sir Edward discussed "The State and Medical Research," told of the "first recorded experiment in medical science by a king himself," an experiment remarkably similar in technique to work done by scientists on guinea pigs today. Said Sir Edward: "Frederick the Second. Emperor of the Romans, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, known as Stupor Mundi, the Wonder...
...last week's Lancet Dr. Meulengracht revealed the answer to this medical mystery. The patient was a "hypochondriac," he said, "and obsessed by his evacuations." Every morning for 35 years he had taken one teaspoon of Carlsbad salts as a laxative. Carlsbad salts "are mainly composed of sodium sulfate and sodium bicarbonate, and presumably a certain amount of calcium of the food was transformed in the intestine into insoluble calcium sulfate which was then evacuated." The result was "a calcium deficiency of the skeletal system." When the patient was deprived of Carlsbad salts his disease was checked. Although still...
...When they made a slit up the abdomen to take stock of the damage, they found kidneys, liver, stomach, heart, lungs, glands,arteries and nerves miraculously intact. Only injuries were two punctures through the bowel which were quickly stitched up. Said Dr. E.H. Hambly, reporting the case in The Lancet last fortnight: "The patient made an uninterrupted recovery...
Last fortnight in The Lancet, Drs. Deanesly & Parkes reported the results of experiments made on the hunch. They anesthetized five immature male guinea pigs, made slits in their skins, pushed a disc-shaped ovarian hormone tablet, weighing from eight to 16 milligrams, into each slit, and stitched up the incision. There was no local reaction but a tight coat of connective tissue began to grow around the tablets. After six months the guinea pigs' male sex organs had atrophied, their rudimentary male mammary glands had become greatly enlarged. The tablets were then removed, dried, weighed. It was found that...
Last fortnight a similar and even prettier experiment was described by Dr. William Thalheimer of Manhattan, and Drs. Donald Young Solandt and Charles Herbert Best of Toronto, in The Lancet, British medical journal. They reported removing the kidneys from a dog, thus preventing him from excreting the nitrogenous poisons carried in his blood stream. Several days later, when his blood was filled with urea, they anesthetized him, connected an artery and vein to a vein and artery of a healthy, anesthetized dog. The small connecting pipes were attached to a specially designed pump which exchanged more than six quarts...