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...required for music, painting and literature is small. Proficiency in geometry (dealing with space) and in arithmetic (dealing, with numbers) are entirely unrelated except for a common demand on G. Dr. Spearman would not define G exactly, said it might have some connection with "the mass-action of the cortex of the brain...
...obvious from Professor Langdon's letter in the last issue of TIME [Aug. 12] that he has fallen into the error of confusing adrenaline and the adrenal cortex hormone. . . . Indeed, adrenaline has long since been abandoned by many ophthalmologists as a dangerous drug in glaucoma...
...cholesterol found in bile, brains and eggs. Nicely controlled chemical procedure produced a modified hydroxy-ketone which he claims is chemically identical with the male sex hormone. Whether it can be used alone or whether, like natural sex hormones, it works best in combination with pituitary, thyroid or adrenal cortex medication, is something pharmacologists must determine. It probably will grow hair on a eunuch's chest. But there is no chance whatever that it will make him a father...
...published is Surgeon Martin's two-volume autobiography, The Joy oj Living (Doubleday, Doran $7), which yields flashing glimpses of the important surgeons of the past half century. *No kin of Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey of San Francisco who still claims to be alleviating hopeless cancer with adrenal cortex extracts (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931 et ante...
During the War surgeons noticed that after head injuries many soldiers developed epilepsy. Dr. Ney and associates, first with the French Red Cross, later the American Expeditionary Forces, observed particularly that where the injury occurred the cortex and three soft coverings of the brain (pia mater, arachnoid membrane, dura mater) adhered to the skull. If during an operation the surgeon pulled at the attached soft parts, the patient on the operating table went into epileptic convulsions. The Ney group judged that the convulsions resulted from the incidental stretching of the cerebral cortex...