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...rays or radium. In its advanced stages the specialist can only make the patient more comfortable while he slowly, painfully dies. Two California doctors, Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber, think they have found a palliative or cure in an extract made from part of the adrenal cortex of sheep. They patented their extract, have been running a free clinic in San Francisco since 1930. When they sought to start an Eastern clinic, on Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners' $1,000,000 Long Island estate, "The Monastery," they were refused a State license (TIME, June 1, et ante). They...
...benefits of the use of the suprarenal cortex extract experienced by patients with malignant tumors in relation to gain in weight and relief from pain did not occur uniformly or in the majority of the patients observed...
...Cure of malignant disease in patients with advanced carcinoma or sarcoma (cancer), in view of the experience of the patients of this series, cannot reasonably be expected to occur as a result of the use of the suprarenal cortex extract...
Professor Hartman, 47, physiologist at the University of Buffalo, has separated a hormone from the covering, or cortex, of the adrenal glands. He calls his hormone ''cortin." To make one ounce of cortin requires the adrenals of 130 cattle...
Last week a Chicago reporter of the United Press discovered a Mrs. Andrew Nelson, wife of a workless carpenter and mother of six, dying of dread Addison's disease. Her physician, Dr. Richard Torpin, remarked that extract of adrenal cortex might prolong her life. But the extract was scarce, impossible to get. A small news item resulted...