Word: adrenaller
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Last week Syntex announced that a group of its chemists headed by Dr. George Rosenkranz had at last accomplished the feat, starting with diosgenin from cabeza de negro. They transformed it by 18 chemical steps to "Reichstein's Compound D,* which had been found in minute quantities in the...
The Medical School has been allocated the remaining $200,000 for a five-year study of the physiological and psychological effects of adrenal hormones.
Volunteers whose normal supply of adrenal hormones has been cut off by operations and replaced by injections of cortisone will take part in the experiments.
Since the Ford Foundation is primarily concerned with "the increase of scientifically established knowledge of human behavior," this project will concentrate on the effect of adrenal hormones on the makeup and behavior of the individual.
By the Thorn thesis, all the Harvard-men showed a "healthy" response to stress; eosinophil counts showed a drop proportionate to exhaustion. If an exhausted man's count had failed to show a drop of 50% or more, Thorn would have regarded it as a sign that the adrenal...