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Last spring, young Dr. Lefft tried to find a natural body substance that would be harmless to the brain, make clear X-rays possible. After several tries, he hit on Di-odotryosine, a white odorless powder of an iodine compound normally found in the thyroid. Dr. Lefft mixed the powder with ordinary gelatine, tried it first on cats and dogs. Later he and Dr. MacLean used it on 44 patients with excellent results. The new substance, said Dr. Lefft, can also be used for X-rays of lungs, uterus, other abdominal organs...
...Mayo Clinic, like its founders, cannot boast of a great deal of original work, but serves as a testing field and improving plant for new theories. It is remarkable for its quick application of new discoveries to bedside practice. Some of its outstanding contributions to medicine: isolation of thyroid hormone (Dr. Edward Calvin Kendall); perfection of oxygen masks for aviators (Drs. Walter Meredith Boothby, William Randolph Lovelace II & Arthur Bulbulian); cutting fibers of the sympathetic nervous system to treat circulatory disturbances of hands and feet (Dr. Alfred Washington Adson); use of iodine in certain thyroid diseases (Dr. Henry Plummer...
...carbohydrates are rushed through the body, poured out in the urine, without being properly digested or warehoused in the liver. Four groups of glands may be involved in this condition: the tiny islands of Langerhans in the pancreas, which secrete insulin, a hormone essential for carbohydrate digestion; the adrenals, thyroid and anterior pituitary, which seem to act antagonistically to the islets. Exactly how they work, or what causes them to go berserk, no one knows...
...Iodine, which lodges in the thyroid, eats away cancer tissue without disturbing the tiny parathyroid glands which lie underneath. In fact, said Dr. Lawrence, the entire gland can be removed "blood-lessly...
...last sighted one in an estuary, he blimped back to shore, boarded a speedboat, bagged it (935 lb.). In Cleveland the manatee, like some twelve score other animals Crile has collected from Lake Tanganyika to Hudson Bay in the past 15 years, has its excised brain, heart, thyroid and adrenal glands on display. Ringmaster Crile's animal act is more elaborate than any Carl Hagenbeck ever cracked a whip over...