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...pulled it out, rushed the boy to Metropolitan Hospital, where doctors made an incision in the chest, fished out a small circle of trouser which had been pushed up by the rod. When they made a slit up the abdomen to take stock of the damage, they found kidneys, liver, stomach, heart, lungs, glands,arteries and nerves miraculously intact. Only injuries were two punctures through the bowel which were quickly stitched up. Said Dr. E.H. Hambly, reporting the case in The Lancet last fortnight: "The patient made an uninterrupted recovery...
...connected an artery and vein to a vein and artery of a healthy, anesthetized dog. The small connecting pipes were attached to a specially designed pump which exchanged more than six quarts of blood an hour in each direction. A solution of heparin (a phosphorus compound found in the liver) was introduced into the blood to prevent coagulation. No change was made in the blood volume of either animal, but the two blood streams were thoroughly mixed until the urea of the nephrectomized (kidney-less) dog was distributed fairly evenly throughout the blood of both animals. The normal dog rapidly...
Died. Max Factor, 61, onetime Russian Imperial Court cosmetician and wigmaker who became Hollywood's No. 1 make-up artist; of a liver and kidney ailment: in Beverly Hills. In 1935 Mr. Factor gave a $25,000 party for 10,000 people to open a $600,000 cosmetic factory "of proportions created only for royalty in the past...
Nicotinic acid, a distant relative (about second cousin once removed) of tobacco's nicotine, is found in yeast, wheat germ and liver. When considerable quantities were fed to some 300 patients with pellagra, their sores healed, their cramps disappeared. Even patients who were violently insane dramatically regained their wits within 48 hours. In a few days they were able to eat pellagra-preventing foods...
Died. Pearl White, 41, and Warner Oland, 57, respectively heroine and villain of The Fatal Ring, Wartime cinema serial thriller; Miss White in Paris of a liver ailment, Mr. Oland in Stockholm of bronchopneumonia. Throughout her career as serial queen, Miss White never used a double, never visited Hollywood. Mr. Oland, who often threatened cinema death to daring, cliff-hanging Heroine White, won further fame as Detective Charlie Chan in a recent series of mystery films; Miss White in 1921 retired to Paris with a fortune...