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Cutler Announces Remedy For Serious Heart Ailment
Assisted by Other Doctors in Study of Gland Removal
Dr. Eliot C. Cutler '99, Moseley professor of Surgery, yesterday announced that the removal of normal thyroid glands will give permanent relief to those afflicted with angina pectoris, a painful heart disease. He revealed that the Medical School had been studying the effects of such operations for more than a year.
Formerly doctors had removed the sympathetic nervous system to ease the pain in such cases but it was merely a relief not a cure. It has not yet been definitely established why the operation has these beneficial effects. Doctor Cutler was assisted by Doctors Herman L. Blumgart '17, associate professor of Medicine, and Doctor Samuel O. Levine '10, assistant professor of Medicine.
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