Word: ductless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Olga Bridgman announced that she had discovered a means of transforming idiots into high grade morons. No details were given, aside from the fact that the treatment is applied to the thyroid glands and is declared effective only in cases of idiocy resulting from irregular secretions from the ductless glands...
...Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917), Swiss, director of surgical clinic, University of Berne, expert in surgery of thyroid and other ductless glands and of exophthalmic goiter...
...Knowledge of the ductless glands will make possible undreamed-of control of passions, imagination, delinquency...
...gonads is stopped by removing part of their duct (called the "vas deferens"), or even by tying it off, the reproductive cells atrophy and the interstitial cells multiply and occupy the space, greatly increasing the flow of the hormones. The effect is to turn the gonad into an exclusively ductless gland. The same general results are produced as in the case of transplantation. Steinach himself makes no extravagant claims. He calls the effect " arrest within modest limits of the process of senility," and says the use of the term " rejuvenation " is unfortunate. It is merely the prolongation for varying periods...
...quickly. So that human beings who contemplate the Steinach or Voronoff operations may find their last state worse than their first. Other critics have pointed out that the sex glands are only one factor in the regulation of old age, and that for complete arrest of senility, all the ductless glands would have to be renewed, not to mention other physiological changes. But Dr. Peter Schmidt, a colleague of Steinach, who claims to have performed 85 of the operations himself, made very rosy predictions in an address at Berlin last week. Indefinite prolongation of life by a series of Steinach...