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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...
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...
...most truthful representation of magnificent compositions, but not an outpouring of a magnificent personality . . . Everything is distinct, clear, sharp as a pencil sketch." But if Hanslick had never written a word about any other musician, his place in musical history would still be secure as the sharpest thorn in the sensitive flesh of Richard Wagner...