Word: cranial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Dr. Charles Frederick Buckley, school physician, recognized Harold's rubbing poison ivy on his own face as a symptom of hypo-pituitarianism. When the pituitary gland is underdeveloped the victim is subject to convulsive seizures. These fits differ from those caused by brain infections or other cranial maldevelopments in that they are apt to be erratic and to manifest themselves viciously. They appear with adolescence. Endocrinologists have discovered that young hypo-pituitarians, if untreated, become very fat, sexually undeveloped. This boy was just beginning to manifest those marks. But five to ten grains of sheep's pituitary...
...harrassing pain from the fifth pair of cranial nerves has always appealed to the sympathies of the dental practitioner and stimulated him to conquer it. That the profession is slowly but surely achieving this task is indicated by the great progress that has been made toward clearing the trail blazed by these two public benefactors. Here at Harvard, notable advances have been made in the use of nitrous oxide and oxygen, and especially in the technique of administering local anaesthetics...