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Show Report New Technique in Gland Transference For some time surgeons have been attempting to transplant thyroid and parathyroid glands from one body to another. Such operations were usually usu-ally accompanied by a certain degree of success since the glands would live for a while but then, in most casses, would be absorbed. Dr. H. B. Stone, of Baltimore, now reports a new technique which seems to have overcome this difficulty. Instead of transferring the gland tissue directly from one body to the other it Is kept alive for about ten days In a laboratory labora-tory culture. The culture Is absolutely abso-lutely germ-free and consists of artificial arti-ficial blood and a serum prepared from the body of the gland's future host. The artificial blood supplies nourishment for the tissue and the serum prepares It for the conditions it will meet In the new body. As a result, when the transplantation Is finally made the ti. sorted but thrive, S'1' ll function in Us of making the mf which is the natural ,'' of the glands, the u' 9ti the armpit Vervl es' theglan5tlSsIr success of this netll($4 types of glands mel1' J Important, since both' body health, lts w glands would end d1,b, dison's dlsease.-p,tv, ! zine. m"i- |