Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medical Economics, "business magazine of the medical profession," last week tried to answer the doctor's perpetual question: How much shall I charge? In different communities, surgeons charge from $100 to $5,000 to remove a tumor from the bladder, $50 to $2,000 to repair a fractured skull. Removal of an appendix costs $150 to $250 in some Western communities, from $250 to $1,000 in Eastern cities. Office call charges average $2. But some doctors take as little as 50?. some as high as $15. Doctors, to avoid competition, look to their county medical societies...
...want to congratulate TIME'S editor on its section on Medicine. Statements are always brief and nearly always correct. The issue of July 3 contained much information regarding the ductless glands, nearly all correct, but parathyroid tumors are accompanied by an increase in the parathyroid hormone which abstracts calcium from the bones and so leads to softening and cyst formation. Removing the tumor reduces the amount of parathyroid hormone and allows the bones to regain calcium...
Johns Hopkins' Professor Dean DeWitt Lewis, who is the new A. M. A. president, said that he hunts for a tumor of the parathyroid when he gets a case of bone cyst. The cysts "develop and the bones get softer and shorter because the diseased parathyroid cannot produce enough hormones to hold calcium in the bones. Surgeon Lewis cuts out the parathyroid tumors, cures his patients...
...arthritis, although its main influence is in a general weakening of the bones without localizing the trouble. Disease of the pancreas or of the adrenals may also affect the bones. They mentioned a man who broke a leg while sneezing. Autopsy showed a diseased pancreas and a parathyroid tumor...
...zinc miner's 2/5 oz., a stone cutter's 3/5 oz., a granite cutter's 1 1/10 oz. Dr. William James Gardner of Cleveland described the fate of a young woman who had one-half of her brain cut out because of a tumor. Amazingly, she lost neither To hostesses, a "natural." sight, speech, intellect or ability to move about. Yale's Dr. Arthur Meyer Yudkin reported that cod-liver oil and Vitamin A concentrate are effective remedies for the impaired vision which follows excess smoking and drinking...