Word: parathyroid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London Sir George Gibson Mitcheson, M.P. told the Daily Mail that he thought the charity-run Hosa Laboratories which he founded had discovered a good treatment for cancer. Treatment consists of daily subcutaneous injections of an extract of parathyroid glands (small glands close to the thyroid). Name of the extract...
...Iodine, which lodges in the thyroid, eats away cancer tissue without disturbing the tiny parathyroid glands which lie underneath. In fact, said Dr. Lawrence, the entire gland can be removed "blood-lessly...