Word: adrenaller
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Hormones. Then came cortisone. In 1935, a biochemist at the Mayo Clinic, Edward Calvin Kendall, had isolated a hormone similar to those produced by the adrenal glands. But its extraction was painfully complicated; in seven years Kendall could produce only 40 or 50 grams from 120 tons of adrenal glands...
¶ Removal of both adrenal glands, a drastic measure which has been tried for relief of extreme high blood pressure (TIME, May 21, 1951), may also have value in treating some types of spreading cancer. Chicago's Dr. Charles B. Huggins and a colleague tried it on 35 patients...
He is like a man plugged in on a busy switchboard. Lights keep blinking and flashing in Hogan's brain, carrying danger signals from his nerves and muscles. When the switchboard is really busy-as it will be on April 3 when Hogan plays in the Masters Tournament at...
At Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, where Gushing did much of his work, a team of researchers headed by Dr. Seymour Gray put two & two together. This undesirable effect of ACTH and cortisone on ulcer patients, they reasoned, revealed a second pathway by which emotional stress reaches the...
The Syntex process produces, along the line, whole classes of promising steroid compounds. Some of them have been found in adrenal glands, but in quantities too small for practical experimenting. Now, says Syntex, these "cortisone precursors" can be made in any amount desired. Some of them may prove more potent...