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...Harvard Odontological Society will be held Friday, April 6, at the Harvard Dental School. The meeting will begin at 12.30 o'clock and will continue throughout the evening. Dr. Elliot C. Cutler, Professor of Surgery in the Medical School, will speak during the evening session on "The Thyroid Gland and its Relation to Angina Pectoris." During the remainder of the meeting papers of scientific nature will be read and demonstrations will be performed...
...serum, placed in proper containers under proper conditions, becomes a culture medium in which the gland tissue to be grafted is placed. The gland tissue gradually becomes accustomed to the serum, and thus to the biological character of its owner-to-be. When Dr. Stone finally fits a thyroid or parathyroid graft into a new body, the graft suffers no shock, takes firm and lasting root, grows and supplies essential hormones. In the Stone technique whole glands are not necessary for grafting. A few strong cells suffice, and their surrender causes the donor no discomfort...
...large significance to all sufferers from subnormal thyroid or parathyroid glands was last week's news from Johns Hopkins where Professor Harvey Brinton Stone has developed a method of cultivating grafts so that they take lasting hold in a new body. Thyroid and parathyroid happen to be the material which furnished him spectacular results. No longer did his hypothyroids and hypoparathyroids need glandular extracts. His method may apply to all kinds of tissue. Possibly diabetics and other glandular sufferers can get similar relief...
...century "the state of activity ... of the body [will be measured by] the relative percentages of the different parts of the [electromagnetic] spectrum emitted by different parts of the body." More within the compass of everyday medical thought was another physiological complex which Dr. Crile described last week. The thyroid, he argued, is a power-house for the body; the sympathetic nervous system carries the power impulses throughout the body; the adrenal glands control the power; and the frontal lobe of the brain, seat of intelligence, is the driver. The tempo of modern life causes the frontal lobe to drive...
...Eliot C. Cutler '99, Moseley professor of Surgery, yesterday announced that the removal of normal thyroid glands will give permanent relief to those afflicted with angina pectoris, a painful heart disease. He revealed that the Medical School had been studying the effects of such operations for more than a year...