Word: adrenalin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adrenalin & Cortin Sirs: In TIME, July 29, Medicine, you have an article on ''Cortin for Glaucoma." . . , I have been practicing ophthalmology since October 1902 and am one of the Professors of Diseases of the Eye in the Graduate School of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. I have a great many people afflicted with glaucoma under my care, and you have no idea the harm such an article does...
...cause, he declared, was derangement of the adrenal glands. Those glands, situated one above each kidney, secrete two hormones-adrenalin in the cores, cortin in the hulls. One of adrenalin's effects is to draw sugar into the blood (see col. 3). The effects of cortin, a scarcer substance, are less well known. Among such effects is control of the amount of salt and water in the blood. Scarcity of cortin in the system increases the permeability of the walls of blood vessels and capillaries, permits a leakage of salty fluid from the blood...
...learned doctors, doing an occasional piece of medical research. Last year he read about the research Drs. Howard Wilcox Haggard and Leon A. Greenberg had done on tobacco smoking (TIME. July 2, 1934). Those two Yale scientists found, as have other physiologists, that nicotine makes the adrenal glands excrete adrenalin which makes the liver and muscles pour their stored-up sugar into the blood stream where it becomes available for work, pleasure or refreshment. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. focused the magnifying eye of its advertising department upon that minuscule chip in the large mosaic of scientific facts about tobacco...
...crisis by appealing to the League, it is worth the risk. Under the forthcoming treaty, the League is given the opportunity of trying to avert the war. If it fails, the military staffs are immediately free to plunge at each other's throat. Once again solicitous France has injected adrenalin into the bloodstream of the League with apparent success...
...February 1933, stuporous Patricia Maguire developed pneumonia. An oxygen tent, adrenalin and antipneumococcus serum preserved her deathlike life...