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Cholesterol is a steroid, one of a huge and diverse class of chemicals-including many fatty substances and most adrenal and sex hormones-having one thing in common: a four-ring cluster of carbon atoms, known as "the steroid nucleus." Other attached atoms give each steroid its distinctive character (see...
Some physicians have found evidence that aspirin may literally act like the hormones and stimulate the patient's adrenal glands to work better. A similar added benefit is suspected, but not yet proved, for victims of kidney stones: originally prescribed only to relieve the pain, aspirin may help to...
Blue, White & Yellow. Azure crescents in the fingernails sometimes mean that a patient is suffering from Wilson's disease, a disorder that causes copper to collect in the brain, liver and cornea of the eye, and results in progressive tremor. Addison's disease, a serious malfunction of the...
Only 40 years ago, a small island in Chesapeake Bay supported a few deer. They were given plenty of food, and they multiplied enthusiastically. But when the population reached one deer per acre, the animals began to die off. Their internal organs showed "adrenal stress," just like the Minnesota rabbits...
Dr. Hoagland is not prepared to predict flatly that any of these unhappy effects will appear among the earth's human population as its density increases. But he makes some dark suggestions. Even though most inmates of crowded human slums escape to pleasanter places from time to time, he...