The Medical Year

From doctors' offices, from laboratories and universities during the year 1929 issued many a new discovery, many a new comfort for mankind. The epitome:

Vitamin D made by irradiating ergosterol.

Ergosterol and adrenalin found in fluid secreted by toads.

A new type of quartz mercury vapor bulb for generating ultraviolet light developed.

Beta pituitary hormone discovered.

Electrical device for sealing blood vessels perfected.

Study of undulant fever in cows and pigs furthered.

Medical fees studied and attempts made to provide medical care for average incomes.

Death and its causes studied by Russian and French physiologists.

Paretic treatment with innoculations of rat-bite fever virus tried.

Meter for measuring the intensity of the ultraviolet ray perfected.

Machines invented to record every change in the heart rate over long periods.

Cyclopropane anesthetic, a new gas similar to nitrous oxide, discovered.

Irradiated cod-liver oil, found to be more effective than untreated cod-liver oil.

Common cereals irradiated.

Synthetic milk made from soy beans, cane sugar, comstarch, cod-liver oil, calcium lactate, sodium chloride and cabbage water.

Sleep found to be on a level with the body's vegetative reflex functions.

Raw starches discovered to have no permanent effect in heightening blood sugar content in diabetics.

Corferrol, a compound of the extract of the cortex of suprarenal glands with iron and pyrol, experimentally applied to the destruction of cancerous growths in animals by smothering the growths with excess oxygen.

Radioactive elements in blood studied as the initiating source of the heart beats.

Fetal livers proved to be more powerful than the livers of older animals in stimulating the formation of blood in pernicious anemia.

Influenza germ reported discovered.

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