Word: ductless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Growth. After similar experiments on rats, Dr. Philip E. Smith and Professor Herbert M. Evans of the University of California reported that dwarfism and gigantism result from the abnormally less or great activity of the hypophysis, the small ductless gland below the brain...
...forbear giving my assailants good cause to smirk over me. "Mad," they'll say, "quite mad." But at the unholy hour of nine I shall have quitted the sleep of the untroubled, which all vagabonds enjoy, for the heights of Emerson J and the discourse of Mr. Prescott on Ductless Glands...
...Steinach theory recognizes that the testes create spermatozoa (the male sexual cells, which keep up the endless cycle of life). At the same time, the theory supposes** that the testes form an internal secretion. This secretion pours into the blood stream by way of the veins leading from the ductless (in this case also ducted) glands, carries with it hormones, messengers. In the male these are male hormones, in the female "female sex" hormones, "ovarian" hormones, and so on according to the causation view held by the research reporter. These hormones influence the secondary sex characteristics-body build, hair distribution...
...question, remains in mild doubt among research workers, as does the entire question of influence and interrelation of all the ductless glands...
...Abel, Professor of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins, has made scores of contributions to the science of health. He has treated such subjects as: ductless glands, regulation of blood pressure, pituitary principles, insulin...