Evening star., 1932-12-31
FROZEN HORM0NES
| FIGHT OFF DEATH
Addison's Disease Patients
May Now Be Kept in
Normal Health.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., December
3l.-A new little giant" of medicine
that has the possibility Of maintaining
in normal health sufferers from a dis
ease now usually fatal was reported to-
day to the American Association for the
Advancement OF Science. w.
The fatal illness is "Addison's dis
ease" The remedy is the hormone or
secretion Of the suprarenal gland, al
ready known and proven. but now more
highly purified by the novel method of
freezing in temperatures Of 100 to 22O
below zero.
Highly potent crystals Of the hor-
none, prepared from cattle glands by
the freezing method, may supply the
lack Of the hormone that causes Addi-
sons disease in humans, it was reported
by DR.. Arthur Grollman and w. M.
Firor Of Johns Hopkins University.
Keeps Animals Alive.
The new extract of the hormone has
shown its potency by keeping alive ami
mails whose adrenal glands had been
removed. Usually the loss of this gland
means quick death. A fraction Of a
milligram Of the new extract per day
serves to substitute for the loss of the
adrenal gland in rats.
Research that may lead to an i'm
proved and easier method of treating
diabetic patients with insulin was re-
ported by DR.. Hans Jensen of Johns
Hopkins University.
The new treatment would consist Of
administering insulin like medicine by
the mouth instead OF the present
This is. necessary at present because the
anti-diabet effect of insulin is de-
stroyed in the stomach and intestines
when it is taken by the mouth.
Babies "Shellshocked."
The loss Of weight by newborn babies
during the first week OF life has been
"glorified" into a physiological law. but
it really is just a form of shellshock,
reported Dr. l. Newton Kugelmass OF
New York City.
The average loss OF weight Is per
cent Nine-pound babies among those
he studied lost about 8 per cent OF their
weight. and never less than 6 per cent
He has found way to reduce the loss
to IT per cent II is through the in
lection of solution of per cent GEL
attn. 3 per cent dextroSe and one half
/ OF l per cent sodium chloride at two
hour intervals in the FIRST "a hours
after birth
The solution generates blood and
body tissues and raises the body'S heat.
DIR. Writ Re elected.
Dr. Henry Norris Russell OF Prince
ton was elected president OF the as
sociation. Other officers elected were
General secretary for four years end
ing 1886. Dr., Burton E. Livingston.
biologist OF Johns Hopkins University
fre-electedD.
Treasurer for four years ending 1886
John l. Writ. Carnegie Institution Of
! Washington tre-electedl.
Permanent secretary for four years
ending 1896. DR.. Henry b Ward. zoolo-
gist of the University of Illinois.
Members OF the council for four years
ending 1896 Dr. George T. Hargitt,
zoologist of Duke University; DR.. Dusald
c. jackson. electrical engineer OF Mas
sachusetts Institute Of Technology.
Members of the Executive Committee
for four years ending 1896. DR.. Edwin
B. Wilson. statistician. Harvard Uni
versity tre-elected); DR.. A. F. Woods,
director Of scientific work, United States
Department OF Agriculture for term
ending 1894, DR.. Philip Fox, Adler
planetarium. Chicago.
Member board of trustees of Science
Service, for four years ending 1895, DR..
Burton E Livingston tre-elected)-