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Testicles consist of two types of tissue, seminal tubules, which produce spermatozoa, and interstitial cells, lying between the tubules. The interstitial cells produce sex hormones which tone up the whole body, stimulate masculine characteristics. Both types of tissue, according to Steinach, nourish at the expense of the other. Hence he conceived the idea of stimulating hormone flow by damming up the "antagonistic" seminal canals. This he did by ligating (tying off) and severing the main duct of the canals, known as the vas deferens. This "Steinach vasoligature" is a simple operation, takes only 20 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Am I Doing? | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Standard care of gingivitis may consist of X-rays. Vitamin C, liver extracts, antiseptic applications. It often requires the better part of a year. Last week Dr. Daniel Eleazar Ziskin of Columbia University's Dental School reported an effective, new treatment for gingivitis: sex hormone massage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones for Gums | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...conquistadors having had, unlike North American pioneers, a glut of Indian manpower from the first), and on a good deal of shrewd observation on the ground. He succeeds better than most previous writers in conveying the fact that "our national individualities are shockingly different," and in what the differences consist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rediscovered Continent | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...comparatively few men who have succeeded in making a small part of our population structure-conscious. Frank Lloyd Wright is perhaps foremost. "Man takes a positive hand in creation whenever he puts a building upon the earth beneath the sun. If he has a birthright at all, it must consist in this: that he, too, is no less a feature of the landscape than the rocks, trees, bears or bees of that nature to which he owes his being". These words, found in a book recently published by Wright, might give an inkling of the man's stimulating attitude toward...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...deny that Varsity swimming workouts are thought. After two months of ache-producing exercises, the Ulenmen enter, the pool officially, and from 3 o'clock to 4:30 daily, exclusive of morning workouts, the boys wave their arms at the bottom of the bath. A typical session might consist of the following: to being with, a little kicking with the board to limber up the calf and thigh muscles; then, Coach Ulen will inform you to "swim ten laps at three-quarter speed." That usually means 250 yards about us fast as you can go, because five other follows...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

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