New Britain herald., 1929-12-06
ST0CkYARDS HELP
 BATTLE DISEASES
Glands and Extracts From Cattle
 Save Many Humans

Chicago. Dec. G.-Thc squealing pigs and believing cattle that go 10 their doom in droves at the Chicago stockyards arc providing the publc with something quite different from the bacon. ham. sirloin steaks. shoe leather and football covers that are usually considered the stockyards' chief products.
 They arc furnishing the medical profession with medicines Of incal- culable value, which in the course Of year save many thousands ot lives and conserve the health of many millions of Americans.
 Since medicaI ac1cncc discor- cred the importance of tho glands in the human organism, and traced the manner in which glandular extracts can be used to combat sickness. tho stockyarda have become extremely important to the health of the nation.
 The removal of glands from cattle hogs and sheep. and their reduction to medical preparations ol
 
 chief functions ol the great packing houses.
 Six Story Laboratory
 There is, for instance, Armour & Company. A siX-story building houses great laboratories where such things as suprarenaNn, con- ccntrated liver extract and thy roid preparations are made avail able for doctors.
 An incredible amount of work goes into the preparation Of these medicines.
 To make one pound of suprare- nalin, for example, the glands from 15,000 cattle are needed. For pound of posterior lobe pituitary substance, 12,00Q cattle are required. In the long lines where the carcasses of slaughtered animals pass under the knives of the cutters there are men whose sole duty is to re- move the essential glands.
 In the laboratories are 13 huge vacuum ovens. The glands are placed on trays and passed through these ovens.
 Then, dried, the glands are freed from excess fat. powdered and then spread oil trays once more, put through another set of ovens Then they are ready for the chem ists, who make them into medicines
 Supply Many Medicines
 The number Of medicines that comes from the stoCkyards is sim ply amazing,
 Beneath the brain of q steer there is the pituitary gIand-a, body about the size of q hazel nut. The posterior lobe, about a tenth Of the whole, provides an extract that is extremely useful to physicians in childbirth cases.
 In the throat is the parathyroi1 gland. about as big as a lima bean. From this is made an extract that regulates the amount of calcium in the blood. used in. healing wounds and ulcers
 Near this gland is the thyroid gland. whose Use in regulating body metaboism, combating goitcr and reducing excess weight is ia nous.
 Nearby lies the thymus gland, about the size of q mans fist, from which comes another extract used in medicine.
 From the steers short ribs comes red bone marrow, where red blood corpuscles for the whole body are made. An extract of this is used in treating anemia. The steers liver, properly treated, has q kindred Use in the treatment of pernicous anemia.
 Contain Priceless Insulin
 The pancreas, near the liver con- tains the priceless insulin.
 Above the kidneys are the su- prarenal glands, about the size of an ordinary oyster. These must be removed immediately, while they re- tain the animal heat, and rushed to the laboratory; from them is made suprarenalin, a supremely important heart stimulant.
 The hog gives valuable thyroid and pancrcas glands. Pcpsin is also found in the hogs stomach lining.
 From sheep are taken thyroid. Iancrcas and suprarouaI @ianda, h edition. it has bern found That tho saeep's iHtes,iuas proNiGo rh" best kind Of ligaturos for sewing up the human flesh after wounds or opcr- atons.
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