Word: berman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When books are reprinted, it is because their first editions were amusing, illuminative, significant or fascinating. Within the last fortnight, the Macmillan Co. reprinted The Glands Regulating Personality, by Louis Berman, M.D., Associate in Biological Chemistry at Columbia University. This book was first published in 1921, when professional respect for endocrinology still hovered in skeptical abeyance; and when popular acceptance of one of the Century's more important revelations did not proceed much farther than the glandular jokes to be heard on Broadway...
Currently, Dr. Berman's book is received with more intelligence. Publicists, parents and practitioners have been educated, in their respective planes of understanding, to look upon endocrinology as important, intimate, significant. When Dr. Berman describes the cretin, his hideous characteristics and precarious destiny, he is now sure of an attentive audience. When he elucidates the cures that have been wrought upon the cretin, he is now certain that society appreciates while applauding, and that medicos share his enthusiasm as well...
Such are the cretins. But how few, suggests Dr. Berman, are aware of the transformation that has been wrought upon these wretches by modern Science. By furnishing the hormones, or vital gland secretion, in pill form, manufactured from the thyroid extract of animals, the village idiot has been reclaimed in thousands of cases. He (or she) rides on the trolley and subway beside you. He works at the next desk, exercises at the next machine, pours tea at any table, walks, talks, transacts, marries, yet is never detected unless somehow cut off, Antaeus-like, from the source of vitality. Cretins...
...Albert, J. H. Courtney, John D. Farnham '23, L. B. Goldsmith, J. C. Kunkel, E. S. Reid, Jr., A. M. Taylor, E. L. Twomey, D. V. Berman, L. C. Dohmen, J. L. Fly, H. C. Havighurst, K. Lloyd, H. C. Spencer, J. R. Towshen, Richard Walt '23, J. T. Best, C. F. Farbach '23, W. J. Friedman, Lawrence Kimball '22, G. H. Mason, J. S. Stone, M. Turner...
Herbert Alvin Berman of Dorchester...