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Show Surgeons Report Progress Surgeo"s, recently gathered at Boston heard some wonderful stories stor-ies of the progress being made to take care of the physical needs of man. Every day in hundreds of lines of scientific study laborious experiments are conducted and once in a while some student is rewarded re-warded by the discovery v.f a new method, a finding of new facts or the application of new principles. Among the important things that the surgeons heard at their Boston convention were : that certain gland tissue had been transferred from one human being to another. wh?re it performed per-formed the functions which lack of tissue had prevented; that a young woman blind foi nine years, regained sight through the transplanted corneas from other human eyes; that peritonitis, greatest risli of a surgical operation can be prevented pre-vented by a vaccine; that a new X-ray techniqu-j detects cancer of the stomach ui its early, curable stages; that a new device shows c:n-'tant c:n-'tant electrical changes in the gray matter of the human brain; that a da ly administration of a few drops tf hormone extract re-; re-; tored to normal many childle:;s couples and and that a new diagnosis cf non-epidemic meningitis uncovers Ihe db-cas? frr.m one to five day; : arii'rr than heretofore, thus increasing in-creasing the number of cures. We list Lome rf the nrs that came from the annual convention cf the American College of Surgeons Sur-geons in order that men and women wo-men may raiize the greatness of the work be ng due and the debt that society owes to modem surgeons surg-eons and scientist1;. Without k'ew-inri, k'ew-inri, we hazard the gu; that mast of the experts working on the discoveries and developments given out have been . lightly rewarded re-warded so l?v as m:ney compensation compen-sation is considered. |