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...request of a friend of mine, a sporting editor of a Chicago paper," De Voto began, "I agreed to write an article on football. In this I mentioned the physiological fact that excitement causes adrenalin to flow through the veins of the athletes, deadening pain, supposing this to be a commonly known fact. Whereupon a Des Moines writer accused me of libel, saying that I had falsely accused Conference coaches of doping their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE VOTO FINDS FOURTH ESTATE LACKING SENSE | 9/28/1928 | See Source »

Afterwards, as though in defense of his professional reputation, Dr. Sirovich said: "Had I had any medication, such as caffein, sodium benzoate, nitroglycerine, adrenalin or oxygen, I perhaps could have helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Doctor's Dilemma | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Round was the tribute, and warranted. John Jacob Abel, 70, has added many a stone to the house of human knowledge. His special field has been pharmacology, a branch that he has taught at Johns Hopkins since 1893. His researches led to the discovery and synthetic production of Adrenalin, drug that has a startling therapeutic action on the heart muscles.* It can often cause stopped hearts to beat. Only last year he succeeded in preparing insulin in crystalline form. His crystals seem to be the hormone necessary to maintain normal sugar balance in the body and to prevent diabetes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold Hunting | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...They are organic chemical compounds in the blood stream, in units of ultramicroscopic size. They actuate bodily organs much as nerves do, but more slowly, requiring to be transported bodily to the organs, like letters, whereas the nerves flash their stimuli like telegrams. The best known hormones: insulin, thyroxin, adrenalin, pituitrin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Leeds | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...subscription is expiring but I shall not inject any financial adrenalin to keep it alive for, while I have found much of interest in each issue, I have put each one down with a bad taste in my mouth left by some short article, usually under MISCELLANY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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