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IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

SYNTHESIS OF THYROXIN

Lord Birkenhead's recent speech Thyroxin, the hormone produced on modern surgery has focussed by the thyroid gland, has been attention upon a small London synthesized." hospital which," almost unknown

WAS SHAKESPEARE A SCHOOLMASTER?

STORY OF HIS TEACHING."

That Shakespeare's knowledge of Latin and Greek and his fami- |liarity with the habits of school-

to the general public, enjoys of the most remarkable feats of

Such is the brief summary of one boys, was rained from his experi- ence as a country schoolmaster, is among surgeons a world-wide re-organic chemistry evor accom- the theory advanced in last putation for the brilliance and plished in this country.. Tho month's Education Outlook, Importance of its work.

thyroid gland, which lies in the It is recalled that "the old gos- Of this hospital, St. Peter's, neck, is one of several which pour sip, John Aubrey, among much Henrietta-street, Covent Garden, secretions, necessary for normal dubious tradition about butchers' it can truly be said that they make life into the blood. A number of blocks, poaching, whippings and young men out of old.

theas accretions, including, of the torrors of the law," said of Its particular form of rejuvena-course, Insulin, have been obtained Shakespeare, that though he had tion ia the operation known as in forms which are of value in "little-Latino and less Greek, ho prostatectomy, which was hore or medicine. But only two, those of understood Latino pretty well, for. ginated by the late Sir Peter Fre- the adrenals and the thyroid, have he had been in his younger yeares yer, and is now practised in every eo far been obtained puro. Adren- a schoolmaster in the country." surgical centre of the world.„

aline, was Isolated twenty-five Shakespeare's early plays, it is Before Freyer's discovery nt St. years ago, and made synthetically recorded, show intimate technical. Peter's, death was the only re- In 1904. It finds a considerable acquaintance with school text- lease from the painful malady of use for checking haemorrhage and books and a shrewd knowledge of the enlarged prostate gland. The controlling certain types of as-schoolboys, and they abound in first subject of operation, a man of thma and nettle-rush, The synthe familiar tags, quotations and allu 69, made a complete recovery, and the product competes" successfully sions. lived in excellent health until he with, that origination in thei was 89, when he died from heart slaughterhouse. trouble.

Lived To 101.

"On the average, this operation adds 20 years to the life of the patient," an official of the hospi- tal told a Daily Chronicle repre. sent. "One of Occasional visitors is a man of 96, whom we successfully treated

three years ago. 1le is in excellent health

now.

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Let us then imagine Shakespeare. as for some years teaching in a Feeding with thyroid gland or country school; making acquaint- its extracts la the only treatment ance in his leisure hours with the available when the human thyroid masters of English poetry: is absent or functions badly, and quiring a thorough grounding in has saved many from death and the best of Latin culture, Ovid, many more from Idiocy and stunt-Horace, Virgil, Terence, Plautus, ed growth. But the amount of the Seneen, and by these means secur- active principle contained in suching the training that was neces- extracts varied greatly, and where sary to prepare him for his sudden a dose of one batch might be cor-emergence as the chief poet of the rect, the same dose of another was English Renaissance. often too strong or too weak. 15 Tons Among The Human Race.

Another of our patients lived to be 101. Ele was operated upon at

In 1917 Dr. Kendall, of the Maya the age of 91, and recovered robust Clinic, Rochester, Minn. U.S.A., bealth after his many years of in-isolated from the thyroid a cry atalline substance of immense "Strangly enough, he died an the Haif an ounce of this substance potency which he called thyroxinė result of an accident, falling while would keep a man without a thy. walking in his garden and fractur-roid gland normal for seventy-five ing some ribs. Many elderly and years. The entire human race old men come to us from all parts possess about fifteen tons of it in of the world for treatment.”. their bodies... But to get an ounce Apart from the operation of proof it Kendall had to use three tons statectomy, St. Peter's is the home of thyroid, glands, and it was of other forms of research and therefore only available in very trentment. In recent times not small quantities, and somewhat able advance has been made in

more expensive than diamonds. renal and stone surgery.

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£12,000,000 LOST.

COAL STOPPAGE COST TO

STEEL WORKERS,'

Presiding at the annual meeting of the Cargo Fleet Iron Company, Ltd. at Middlesbrough, Lord Fur- ess said that it was estimated that the loss incurred in standing and other charges by the company as a result of the coal stoppage ex eceded £60,000, without taking into Ponsideration the loss of profit.

In 1925 Dr. C. R. Harington, In He estimated that the voul dis- the laboratories of University Col-pute had involved a direct loss in lege Hospital, devised a method of wages to the men employed in the obtaining this substance in a much iron and steel industry of £12,000,- greater yield than Kendall, and 000. threw considerable light structurc..

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To study its technique surgeons from all countries visit the little hospital; the average number of

on its

Sie Alfred Mond, M.P., prosiding oversus medical viņitors being be-

at the annual meeting of the tween 800 and 900 every year.

Now, in conjunction with Pro- Amalgamated Anthracite Collie- Although acclaimed a gem in the fessor George Barger, FR.S., of ries, Ltd., in London, world of surgery, St. Peter's' has Edinburgh, he has accomplished that the 8 months coat stop worked for years under growing the complete synthesis. It is page had resulted in the loss of financial strain. To-day there.are understood that the material from £600,000 in wages to their men. nt least three operable patients which it was synthesised were coul waiting for every available bed-tar products and iodine, but a full each case urgent and becoming account of the synthesis is promis. more serious by delay.

To enable this rich humuni- tarian work, and research of world-wide importance,... to..cos- Linue unfettered, an appeal for £50,000 has been launched.,

PRIVATE POLICE.

BURGLARS.

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ed in the near future. The synthe tie thyroxin has been tested" on human subjects and found to be as effective as that obtained from. the gland."

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Years Of Experiments. Organle chemists all the world over have been attempting this synthesis ever since 1917, and it is no secret that Dr. Harington spent

PROTECTION AGAINST PARIS several years in fruitless attempts before his final success. In view of the large demand for thyroxin there is no doubt that the aynthe Pirls, December 10.-For sometic product will find a market, and time there has existed in Paris an incidentally, the Chicago meat fac- organisation to which many of the tories will lose one of their side- richer householders in the more lines. fashionable residental districts It is not known whether the pro- have subscribed. Its object is to supplement the activities of the regular police force by a service of night watchmen, who are sup- posed to protect the house of the subscribers from burglary.

cess of manufacture will be pat- ented, as in the case of insulin. One may venture to hope that the sale of thyroxin will be properly

controlled. It is quite active when taken by the mouth, and a These houses are marked with dose of a quarter of a grain will little enamelled plates, rather like double the pulse-rate for a week those which used to be fixed to or more, white prolonged over- houses by insurance companies, dosage would be fatal. but, perhaps, rather more discreet..

Apart from its medicul and The elderly gentlemen who carry out this guardianship over the commercial value, this discovery. property of the wealthy-they are marks a great step forward in bio- Kenerally retired members of the itation of a highly complicated pro- chemistry, being a successful im real police-presumably confine their attention strictly to the cess which goes forward" In the houses which bear the hall-mark, living call. It raises hopes of the and one can imagine them fuif- eventual synthesis of inaulin, a ing their duty by inviting the bar- far harder task, but one which glar to try next door instead. On would be of even greater value, if the other hand, the presence of accomplished. the sign-plates must be a useful inilication to burglars of the houses where there is something worth taking.

supervision of their establish- ments, and both the Municipal Council and the Prefect of Police Whatever may be the objections have agreed to co-operate with to the system, they evidently have them with a view to creating a not provented a movement for its special force for this purpose. extension, and the official, an- Already a colonel, formerly in nouncement of this movement is command of the Republican Guard, backed by the 'rather surprising has been placed at the head of it, approval of the Prefect of Police and the Profeet of Police has an- himself-surprising because the nounced that he will give such as. proposal can hardly be and to aistance in recruiting the person- argue an excessivo confidence in nol that the publie may be assured the measures already taken by the of "all the necessary guarantees,”. public authorities for the protec- while it is undertaken that no tion of property. The jewellers, part of the cost of the organisa furriers, and other large shop:tion shall fall upon public funds. keepers of Paris have decided to It now only remains for the sub- take measures for the constant iscriptions to come, In,"

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