Word: ductless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days-old baby, unable to breathe, and kept alive by artificial respiration of oxygen, was saved at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children when X-ray treatment to reduce an abnormal thymus gland was applied under the direction of Dr. Mary Halton. The thymus is a small ductless gland situated at the base of the neck, whose functions are imperfectly understood, though its secretion or " hormone " is believed to influence children's growth and bone formation. It is present in children from before birth until puberty...
...Endocrine imbalance," or, in plain English, abnormal make-up of the secretions from the ductless glands, is susceptible to control by chemical methods, claims Dr. Josiah S. Hughes, professor of chemistry in the Kansas State Agricultural College. Compounds may be produced which will modify inherited dispositions, induce natural sleep, give the exhilaration of stimulants without their consequent depression, perform other miracles now undreamed of. It is only fair to say that psychiatrists and physiologists are still generally from Missouri" on such romantic possibilities...