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Usually, however, the physician prefers to mix the 

 thyroid extract with the patient's food, this being 

 a much simpler proceeding, and in the long run 

 just as effective. 



Thyroid gland transplantation. Why when the 

 administration of thyroid gland is so efficacious, 

 thyroid gland transplantations should be under- 

 taken to cure patients suffering from hypothyroid- 

 ism, is not clear. I take up a New York newspaper 

 for Dec. 9, 1920, and in it is the following (special 

 dispatch from Chicago) : "Mary Zembok, 19, of 

 Joliet, 111., may become a normal girl of 19 that 

 is if the grafting of a monkey gland into her neck 

 to-day restores her mentality and physical develop- 

 ment. Physicians who performed the operation 

 said that it had been successful. Mary had been 

 mentally defective almost since birth, and com- 

 paratively paralyzed. The mother, a Pole, has five 

 children besides Mary, all of them normal. When 

 Mary was two years old it became apparent that 

 she would not develop into a normal child, and 

 Mrs. Zembok relegated her to the basement of their 

 home, where she lived in perpetual darkness until 

 two months ago, when the health authorities learnt 

 of the case. The child, when found, was immedi- 

 ately removed to a hospital here. It was decided 

 that the only hope for a full recovery would be the 

 gland transplantation operation. To-day the 

 monkey, a full-grown animal, and the child were 



