Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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German sledge hammers. Recaptured, he killed two guards with a rifle butt and escaped; recaptured again a few days later by a German patrol, he managed to persuade an enemy intelligence officer that he was an Irish revolutionary whose sole aim was to get back home and be a thorn in the side of the British. "Put me on a German ship," he begged, "and send me to Ireland ... [or] let me get to Spain, and there I'll find a ship...
...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...
...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...