Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to inform you of an error which occurred in your most reliable magazine. In TIME of Nov. 16 your People column stated that Paavo Nurmi's heart was three times normal size...
...enclosing a clipping, first of a series of twelve appearing in the Evening Bulletin written by Paavo Nurmi himself. He states: "The sensational news about my heart having been enlarged three times its normal size is pure bosh." I am enclosing the clipping...
...year I have its Roentgen-picture taken, to avoid surprises. The last time such a picture was taken was on Dec. 3 last. The picture reveals that my heart is 10 mm. longer in one direction and 10 mm. narrower in the other than the hearts of fully normal people of my age, but otherwise it does not show anything out of the common or wonderful...
Last week from Canada issued more good news for diabetics. From the duodenal membranes of rabbits, dogs, hogs and cattle they had isolated a new hormone. Fed in powder form or injected into patients with diabetes, it reduced blood sugar to normal. Quietly Dean Archibald Bruce Macallum and Associate Professor of Physiology Norman B. Laughton of the University of Western Ontario Medical School made a preliminary report of their discovery to the Royal Society of England. As a diabetes medicine it may prove as effective as the insulin Toronto University's Drs. Banting & Best discovered...
...hormone of Drs. Macallum & Laughton has two advantages that insulin lacks. Not only may it be taken by mouth (insulin must be injected) but it cannot reduce the blood sugar below the normal (.08-.12%). Experiments both on animals and on human subjects confirmed this. But Drs. Macallum & Laughton, treading warily, think experiments on human patients in a few U. S. and Canadian hospitals should continue for four or five years before their new hormone may be introduced for general...