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...throat operation performed on Orator Hitler last May, two days after he displayed great hoarseness in his full- length oration to the Reichstag (TIME, June 3), was officially announced last week to have been for the removal of a polyp or outgrowth from the mucous membrane. Called "successful," the polypectomy was said to have cured Hitler's hoarseness...
Most of what he saw and reported in the American Medical Association Journal last week was news: The inside of the normal stomach "presents a brilliant picture-glistening, bright, orange red. The apparently normal gastric mucous membrane often contains some hemorrhages and pigment spots. The significance of these is perhaps not yet entirely clear." Stomach ulcers are yellow or greyish white, stomach cancers dark brown or violet...
Hope of conquering infantile paralysis first arose in 1910 when Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research discovered the virus which causes the disease. He found it in the mucous membranes of the nose and throat, and suspected that it might exist along the olfactory nerve. Not until last year did Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan and Dr. Arthur Roland Elvidge of McGill University discover that the virus did travel up the olfactory nerve to the brain, then to the spine...
...pathway, explained Dr. Flexner. is the one by which the sensation of smell reaches the brain. Exposed in the mucous membrane of the nose lie the hairlike end-processes of the olfactory nerve cells. Up these nerves, which are relatively isolated from the blood and lymph, the attacking virus passes direct to the brain's olfactory lobe, thence proceeds to invade more distant parts of the brain and spinal cord. The invaders, injuring motor nerve cells, produce muscular paralysis. The damage done, some of the virus returns the way it came, goes out from the nose...
Osteopathic Practice. Expounded Dr. Ray G. Hulburt, editor of A. O. A. publications: "The osteopathic physician holds that it is a part of his duty to find and remove various disease causes, including bad environment or faulty habits. He uses antiseptics when the skin or mucous membrane is broken or cut to admit infection, but for the great mass of disease germs which invade the body and constitute infections, he believes that if the body machine is in proper adjustment, it will itself make all the remedies it needs. When necessary the osteopathic practitioner uses anesthetics and surgery...