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New Thyroid Gland Treatment For Heart Sufferers
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a small stucco-fronted hospital in Queen's-square, Lon. BATAVIA don, Mr. George Bankoff, a young surgeon of Russian CALCUTTA birth but Italian nationality, has saved the lives of thirty-CHEFOO seven people given up for lost by other doctors.
COLOMBO DALILEON POOCHC
HAMBUL НАНКОЙ HARDIN
Working on theories that have been part of man's medical HAP knowledge for 3,000 years, Mr. Bankoff has evolved what is be lieved to be a cure for angina pectoris, a form of heart disease.
The ancient Chinese treated; heart sufferers with vegetable |
extracts rich in iodine, as iodine acts directly on the thyroid
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the neck close to the larynx.
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The connection between the activities of the thyroid gland and the working of the heart has been recognised for years. It was noted that an easing of the heart's nction followed enlarged thyrold.
First Experiment Succoeds
RETURNS
Honolulu, Mar, 10. Joseph F. Rock, who explored all parts of the world and led scientific expeditions into west China and Tibet despite frall health, is returning to the univar- sity campus he made the botanical
University of
Howali
plants
Surgeons in Berlin and America followed up this line of research and began to wonder if the re-museum of America.
The moval of a healthy thyroid gland might not be of help in chronic grounds boast trees and heart dlačane,
from most every part of the to the tireless world-thanks
These include efforts of Rock. the African sausage tree, the Indian peopul, rubber and many species of rare palms.
The first operation of this kind in London took place in November 1934. An old Italian kitchen porter whose heart was diseased and whose life was - despaired of was operated on nt the Italian Hospital in Queen's-square by Mr. Bankoff. He recovered.
A collection as unusual as the reses he gathered will be given to the university by Rock, the an- nouncement of his return asid. He is giving to the school's Orien- Since then, in the same operat-tal Institute his rare collection of ing theatre and with a growing books on west Chian and Tibet. confidence, Mr. Bankoff has anved It include several thousand thirty-six more lives.
volumes, some of them of great value because they are rare.
In the current Issue of the Medical World Mr. Bankoff Since 1919 when he resigned as tells of some of his cases, his botany professor at the Univer- operative technique, and his re-sity of Hawaii because of delicate searches.
health, Rock has been leading ex-
The operation is performed un-peditions into Tibet and China for der a local unresthetics An in-uniyeralties, geographic societies claion is made in the neck and and museums,→→United Press, the gland is removed.
Mr. Bankoff has operated on
sixty-four patients altogether. De- Sister Ship
epite the intricacy and dangers of the operation not one life has been loat.
He says: "The prospect of miraculous healing by means of total thyroidectomy (removal of the thyroid gland) seems to be
not confined to patients suffering from cardiac lesions but applic- able also to a much wider range of morbid conditions in which medical treatment, has до for proved unsuccessful,"
For The Queen Mary
TWO WORDS CUT IRELAND OUT
Belfast, Mar. 10.
He gives four reports on cases TINLESS_the_ Government he has dent with. They make Interesting reading.
can be persuaded to Case 1-Arterio-sclerotic heart alter the terms on which the disense (hardening of the ar-loan for the construction of terica) with hypertension, cardiac the Queen Mary was grant asthma, and repeated attacks of angina pectoris....
ed, Belfast will not be able
"A man aged fifty-eight, a shoe-to tender for the building of maker. During the last two years the sister ship which the unable to do any work, practically Cunard White Star Line are
now seriously considering.
confined to bed...
Man. "With Month
To Live"
Tho secretary of the Italian Hospital told me that this man had been told that he had only a month to live when he arrived at the hospital
The financial resolution au- thorising the loan, and providing for a similar advance in respect of the second ship, stipulated that both vessels must be built in "Great Britain." Those two words do not include Northern Ireland, ... total ablation (removal) An endeavour is now being made of under thyroid gland was per- by the Belfast shipbuilders, back- formed under local anaesthesia ed by the Ulster Government, to requiring about three-quarters induce Westminster to amend the of an hour... twenty-one wording.
The case book reads on:-
days after operative interven-
tion patient discharged
permitted to do light work three He Collects
months afterwards.
"And that man," the hospital Policemen's
secretary said, "ta now perfectly
fit and as healthy as any other
man of his age."
It was also suld that "few of
the patients feel the loas of even
so important an
organ us the
Truncheons
Leamington (Warwickshire),
Mar. 8.
strangest
thyroid gland, and if they do we I visited to-day the can easily give an extract of collection in the world. It is own thyroid to make up for the deed. by Mr. Erland Fenn Clark, of ficiency."
Jutland Hero
Wiles-street, Leamington.
Mr. Clark collects bludgeons and policemen's truncheons.
The hall of his house, where the
Dead In His Car 300 or more specimens are display-
jed, would frighten ony would-be
Aberdeen, Mar, 10. burglar out of his wita
A Jutland hero, Lieutenant Duncan MacLachlan, who was in command of a sloop at the famous battle and. gained the D.S.C., was found dead in his car Inst night.
One particularly terrifying bludgeon' consists of a spiked iron ball attached to a heavy stavo by an Iron chain.
"SKULL" CENSUS ・・ Some of the handles are notched, He was living in retirement at showing the number of skulls the Mosa-Side of Letter, Dunecht, and weapons have cracked,
ho and his wife were preparing Mr. Clark told me that he gradu- to go to a concert.
nted as a truncheon collector
He went to bring the car to the through courses of collecting door, and his wife followed, but birde eggs, stanips and coins, for the car was not there,
It was in the garage, the
engine not started, with Lieut..
MacLachlan lying across the
sent.
which he won trophies.
Seven years ago he secured his Arat truncheon. Now museum
keepers come to him for informa- tion. Millionaires have looked on-
A doctor was called, but Lieut.viously at his collection. He claims MacLachlan was dead. He had that It is the finest in the world.
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