Word: senora
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...government party. The strong man-pausing only to recount the vote's in his own favor -angrily exiled Ignacio and three of Pedro Arcaya's children for good measure. Aristocratic Don Pedro and his wife were not bothered, but the ouster of her children so outraged Senora Arcaya that she took to spending hours on the telephone denouncing the dictator to her society friends. One Christmas the elder Arcayas found their phone, ripped out and tied with a red ribbon, on the doorstep...
...Swedish Method. Dr. Schutte, a hormone specialist, discussed the case with Neurosurgeon Jorge A. Picaza. They decided that Senora R. might be relieved by a drastic operation developed by two Swedish doctors: removal of the pituitary gland. The Swedes thought it offered promise in some forms of cancer...
...getting at it have been devised, but none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora R.'s forehead. With the frontal lobe of the brain pushed aside, he worked past a barrier of optic nerves to cut the stalk by which the pituitary hangs from the hypothalamus...
Three Hormones. Senora R. withstood the operation amazingly well. Within a week the pain of her cancer had gone and she needed no more morphine. Dr. Schutte now supplies only three hormones as substitutes for those produced or governed by the pituitary: cortisone, desoxycorti-costerone and thyroid. Today, 95% of the outward signs of her cancer have disappeared...
...this freedom may last. Neither did they say that it is the direct result of removal of the pituitary. However, until hormones became available from factories to replace the body's products, it would have been impossible for a patient to live for a year without a pituitary. Senora R. has not only survived; she runs a neat home for her family and does all her own housework...