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...news that Hollywood has decided to cinematise a fine book usually causes one to have that queer feeling in the liver usually only associated with love...
...love to behold that wonder-glow, expected to see its quintessence last week in Philadelphia where Dr. George Richards Minot of Boston was scheduled to lecture on pernicious anemia at the Inter-State Postgraduate Medical Assembly. Dr. Minot, a diabetic, would not have been alive to discover the liver treatment for pernicious anemia and therefore to win a Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 5), if Nobel Laureate Frederick Grant Banting had not discovered the insulin treatment for diabetics. But Dr. Minot did not go to Philadelphia last week. Instead, he unexpectedly sailed for Sweden where late next month he will receive...
Removal of an infected gall bladder, which is inextricably fastened to the liver, is simpler with the electric knife. After Dr. Whitaker cuts away all loose parts of the gall bladder, he sears the remainder in its liver bed. Thus he effectively prevents damage to the liver, dangerous hemorrhage, and dripping of infectious material into the peritoneum...
Then Harvard's Dr. William Bosworth Castle discovered why liver helped anemics. Pernicious anemia, he showed, is a deficiency disease in a category with diabetes and myxedema. In pernicious anemia the stomach fails to secrete a certain substance which as yet has not been isolated. Ordinarily that stomach secretion mixes with food, especially meats, and produces a second, unidentified substance in the intestines. There the second unknown is absorbed and gets to the arm and leg bones where it stimulates the production of red blood cells...
...Liver only stays death from pernicious anemics. However, with $14,000 practically in his hands to pay for further research, Dr. Minot could confidently proclaim last week: "We are on the track of a cure, a complete and final cure...