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...vampire, Renold was one of a team which was testing the oarsmen's reactions to stress. Dr. George W. Thorn (TIME, May 21) acted on the theory that in a normal, healthy reaction to physical or emotional stress the adrenal cortex is stimulated. It then puts out more hormones, which (among other effects) cut down the number of eosinophils (a type of white cell) circulating in the blood. Thus a series of before & after eosinophil counts might show whether a man's reaction to stress is normal...
...Thorn thesis, all the Harvard-men showed a "healthy" response to stress; eosinophil counts showed a drop proportionate to exhaustion. If an exhausted man's count had failed to show a drop of 50% or more, Thorn would have regarded it as a sign that the adrenal cortex was not producing the extra hormones which the body demands under stress...
...theory, a normal person's adrenalin glands issue hormones during times of stress. To prove the theory and the blood test, Dr. Albert E. Renold, research fellow in medicine, Dr. Thomas B. Quigley '29, clinical associate in Surgery, Dr. Harrison E. Kennard '25, assistant surgeon and Dr. George W. Thorn, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics, made the tests on crew members and coaches...
...Thorn described twelve cases in which the operation had been performed. Four cases had died; eight others had been kept alive by the administration of de-soxycorticosterone and cortisone, given in place of adrenal hormones. One patient went ice fishing in New Hampshire a few weeks after the operation; his only complaint was that he got uncomfortably cold, which was to be expected because the body's conversion of food into heat depends, in part, on the activity of the adrenal glands...
...well that he got a job as a night orderly at Peter Bent Brigham. Considine takes a cortisone tablet twice a day and gets a daily injection of desoxycorticosterone. It is too early to say what success the technique may have in treating extreme high blood pressure, and Dr. Thorn was bending over backward to be conservative in his report. But four of the patients surviving without adrenals had shown a marked drop in blood pressure. In all eight cases, the enlarged, overburdened hearts had been reduced in size. And the maintenance of life by artificial hormones after removal...