Medicine: Tissue Transplanted

Of large significance to all sufferers from subnormal thyroid or parathyroid glands was last week's news from Johns Hopkins where Professor Harvey Brinton Stone has developed a method of cultivating grafts so that they take lasting hold in a new body. Thyroid and parathyroid happen to be the material which furnished him spectacular results. No longer did his hypothyroids and hypoparathyroids need glandular extracts. His method may apply to all kinds of tissue. Possibly diabetics and other glandular sufferers can get similar relief.

Transplantation of tissue is no new thing. But, before...

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