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Died. Dr. Richard Bishop Moore, 59, dean of science at Purdue University, one-time (1919?23) chief chemist and chief of the division of mineral technology of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, general manager (1923-26) of Door Co. of New York (engineers); of brain tumor and double pneumonia; in Manhattan. A pioneer experimenter in radioactivity, Dr. Moore was the first U. S. scientist to discover means of producing native radium; the first to produce helium gas in large quantities, reduce its cost (from $1,500 to 10 per cubic foot), demonstrate its superiority over inflammable hydrogen gas. From...
...that the adrenal (another name for suprarenal) cortex is essential for life, the medulla not. The cortex has some relation to the sex organs. Enlargement may occur with pseudohermaphroditism (the "man"' or 'woman" has the genitals of the apparently opposite sex). Enlargement may cause premature puberty. A tumor after puberty makes women hairy, their voices masculine. The normal cortex seems to control cellular growth throughout the body. Hence the experimental use of a blind extract to treat cancer (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. The medulla secretes epinephrine, hormone which affects blood pressure. In some way it influences...
Pared Brain. Dr. Walter Edward Dandy (Johns Hopkins) announced that he had found that two-thirds of a man's brain could be pared away without damaging intellectual powers. He reported cases where he had removed both frontal lobes in removing a tumor. Said he: '"To retain unimpaired mental powers a human needs only his midbrain and his left hemisphere...
Doctors sometimes call a benign tumor a cancer. Other times they do not recognize a cancer until after the patient's death. The ratio of incorrect diagnoses is 10%. Every suspected case of cancer in a community should be referred to a central cancer bureau such as exist in Buffalo, Boston, Philadelphia. So recommended Dr. James Ewing, Manhattan cancer specialist, last week. Those bureaus have clinical and pathological experts who review a cancer diagnosis before the surgeon operates or a radiologist burns away the excrescent tissues. Thus they can prevent many a useless operation, much needless suffering...
Enlargement of the prostate by chronic inflammation is a common ailment of elderly men. It is probably not a tumor process. Although it makes the victims uneasy and uncomfortable, it is rarely painful. Authorities estimate that one of three males over 60, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. Gonorrhea in early manhood is a frequent, but by no means the sole cause.* The prostate gland nestles between the male bladder and rectum. Anatomically it corresponds to the womb. Normally it has the shape of a large chestnut 1¼ to 1½ in. wide by 1 to 1¾ in. long...