Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disease, say Mayo's Drs. Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall. The problem: how to wake up the dormant curative powers in the body. Drs. Hench and Kendall have succeeded in doing it dramatically but temporarily with two hormones: cortisone, originally called compound E,* and ACTH (TIME, May 2). But they were cautious in their report, warned that the hormones are still extremely scarce and that it is too early to tell how safe the long treatment will...
...patients left the hospital without sign of rheumatic heart disease except mechanical damage that had already taken place in the heart; 20 have returned to normal activity; one died, from another disease, and one "gained immeasurably." The three doctors concluded that "UBI" (ultraviolet blood irradiation) is safe and may prove, after further tests, to be the best treatment available...
...convict and the girl whose life he may save never saw each other. The prisoner, 49, serving a life term for murder in New York State's Sing Sing prison, lay under guard in a ward in Ossining Hospital, on a hill overlooking the high-walled prison. The eight-year-old girl was in a private room in the same building. She was near death from leukemia, the cancer-like disease of the blood-making system for which no cure is known. Manhattan Hematologist Harry Wallerstein took the child to Ossining because he knew that prisoners there were willing...
...theory behind the exchange: there may be some factor in normal blood that combats leukemia; it might work on the bone marrow, source of the abnormal, immature cells, or it might work on the cells themselves. The doctors hoped to increase this suspected factor X in the convict's bloodstream by giving it extra work to do in fighting the child's leukemia. It was the first such experiment on human beings, although transfusions of normal blood are standard practice for leukemia victims as a life-prolonging measure. One difficulty had been getting a donor willing to exchange...
Sinking Prices. In the drop, some bears unquestionably made a quick neat profit-since the "short interest" was already at its peak (TIME, May 30). As the market opened this week, it dropped again. A test was at hand of the mystic level of 163.12, the low mark made in the 1946 crash, which all subsequent drops had failed to penetrate...