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Among common drugs administered to make the gall bladder evacuate the bile are calomel (mercurous chloride), rhubarb, mandrake, jalap. New are the hormones secretin and cholecystokinin...
...disk about the size of the fish's eye but not so dark-see cut}. Dr. Viehoever found that soon after he injected the most trifling amount of the hormones secretin and cholecystokinin into the fish's tail, the gall bladder contracted, and squeezed its green bile into the intestines. This is what human gall bladders normally do during digestion, what they cannot do when obstructed by gallstones or mucus plugs...
...produced a chemical known as methylcholanthrene, a complex compound of hydrogen and carbon which is very powerful in producing cancer in test animals. This chemical can also be obtained from the bile acids of the human body; therefore, cancer cay be the result of abnormal physiological actions which lead to the manufacture within the body of some chemical of the methylcholanthrene type...
Jones, who has already published a work in biochemistry, will investigate methods of synthesis of phenathrene compounds, particularly sex hormones, sterols, bile acids, and carecinogenic hydrocarbons. Russell and Nowell-Smithh will study philosophy, with the latter devoting special attention to the mathematical logic of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead. American theory and practice in the education of 14-18-year-old boys will be the subject of Smith's work...
...disease. But they do not develop cancer unless some susceptible part of the body is unduly irritated by: 1) carcinogenic chemicals, 2) physical agents (X-rays, strong sun light, repeated abrasions as from a jagged tooth), 3) possibly, biological products produced by parasites. Carcinogenic chemicals occur in coal tar, bile acids, female sex hormone. However, no one under stands the exact way in which any of these causes cancer in those individuals who are susceptible to cancer...