Word: adrenaline
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...uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head (As You Like It). From glands located behind the eyes of 7,500 U. S., German, Jamaican, Uruguayan, South African, Chinese and Japanese toads. Dr. Chen extracted potent drugs (adrenalin, cholesterol, ergosterol, and two digitalis-like substances) which modern scientific medicine considers indispensable. Apparently toads do not use these potent drugs in their own economies. When Dr. Chen removed the glands from several toads, they seemed as well as ever, pursued their proper business of bug hunting. Prospective toad farmers should note...
...Sodium thiosulphate, a drug used externally for ringworm, internally to reduce blood pressure, seems to have similar power. In Buenos Aires last year Dr. A. Buzzo saved four cyanide cases by intravenous injections of sodium thiosulphate and adrenalin...
...their own heart beats by hard thought.) Not only do these particular organs work automatically, they work together. They help each other out through their own nervous switchboard and through the blood stream which carries their messengers (hormones) around. Thus, the adrenal glands above the kidneys manufacture the hormone adrenalin, and adrenalin affects the heart...
Professor Cannon opined that other heart stimulants like adrenalin must also develop in other parts of the vegetative system. Hence his elegant operation...
...normal. Professor Cannon, wriggling the cat's hind part, released the pinched veins and arteries. The heart again beat faster than normal. Obviously the movements of the cat's lower muscles manufactured something which caused the faster beating: that is, a hormone similar in effect to adrenalin. Professor Cannon named his new hormone sympathin...