Word: thornes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miracle drugs a man could not have lived more than a few weeks after surgical removal of his adrenals (the endocrine glands which lie astride the kidneys). Last week the amphitheater at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital was'crowded with standees as Dr. George W. Thorn described cases in which patients have lived as long as nine months after removal of the adrenals and are still going strong...
...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...
George W. Thorn, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics, has discovered a way of keeping alive persons whose adrenal glands have been completely removed, by administering cortisone. He described his treatment at the 64th annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians Tuesday...
...Thorn performed his experiments at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, in Boston, where he is chief physician. Eight patients whose adrenal glands had been removed as a cure for vascular diseases and high blood pressure were cured and kept alive by the cortisone treatment...
Jackson: Good upper and lower on both Black and Thorn...