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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bedroom, he was apparently improving, relapsed on the night of his Baltimore speech. After his death at 2 a.m., the practitioner called a physician. The coroner, summoned where death occurs in the absence of a physician, certified that he had died of uremic poisoning and a heart and kidney condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Death of Lothian | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Raab recovered from his experiment. The symptoms he had experienced gave him added evidence for a new theory of angina pectoris: that the bad actors in angina are the adrenal glands. The adrenals, which cap each kidney, are "second-wind" glands, spill forth energy-producing juices in time of stress. When certain sensitive individuals overwork, or get an emotional shock, their adrenals speed up to feverish pitch. The excess adrenalin tightens the arteries leading from lungs to heart, deprives the heart of oxygen just when it is most needed. Such temporary smothering. Dr. Raab believes, produces the stabbing spasms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Ray for Heart Attack | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Volunteers for treatment were 100 angina patients, of two weeks' to 23 years' standing. Dr. Raab focused the X-rays for a few seconds over each kidney, gave every patient three irradiations on each gland. After an interval of two to four months Dr. Raab gave some of them a second treatment, later even a third. He was careful not to irradiate the adrenals too much, for that might cause general weakness, low blood pressure, brown skin. The patients were allowed no other treatment except small quantities of nitroglycerin to lower blood pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Ray for Heart Attack | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...quit trying to Kidney. Haweeli think you're fooling." Huey protested. "Your face looks funny, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAIN OVER BROWN 14 to 7, PICKLED BY SAGE OF AGE | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...went to Mexico when he was sued by Charlie Chaplin. He wrote a seven-reel drama for Anna Held. He wrote scripts for Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Plainsman, Souls at Sea, 52nd Street. Last June he went to St. Vincent's Hospital for a kidney operation, began dictating the screenplay of Three Girls and a Gob soon after he came out of the anesthesia. Three weeks ago, with the script finished, the kidney trouble returned, forced him back to the hospital. There, last week, Grover Jones, 47, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gag Man | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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