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...cause, he declared, was derangement of the adrenal glands. Those glands, situated one above each kidney, secrete two hormones-adrenalin in the cores, cortin in the hulls. One of adrenalin's effects is to draw sugar into the blood (see col. 3). The effects of cortin, a scarcer substance, are less well known. Among such effects is control of the amount of salt and water in the blood. Scarcity of cortin in the system increases the permeability of the walls of blood vessels and capillaries, permits a leakage of salty fluid from the blood...
Frank Alexander Hartman, 48, professor of physiology at the University of Buffalo, that University's Chancellor's medal; for his work on cortin, potent hormone from the adrenal glands...
Professor Hartman, 47, physiologist at the University of Buffalo, has separated a hormone from the covering, or cortex, of the adrenal glands. He calls his hormone ''cortin." To make one ounce of cortin requires the adrenals of 130 cattle...
Professor Hartman had no extra cortin. But in a few hours he cooked some up from the entrails of 900 Chicago cattle. A police escort sped the hormone with U. P. reporters and photographers from Professor Hartman's laboratory. Mail planes rushed the medicine to Chicago, where more police and U. P. men sped it at 80 m. p. h. to dying Mrs. Nelson...