Word: ductless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spleen is a ductless lymphatic-like gland touching the top of the left kidney. It manufactures white blood cells and, when necessary, red blood cells. Its removal does not cause serious consequences...
Died. Dr. Charles Euchariste de' Medici Sajous, 76, of Philadelphia, outstanding U. S. ductless gland specialist, occupant of the world's first chair of endocrinology (University of Pennsylvania), scion of French-Flemish nobility, member of the French Academy; of heart disease; in Philadelphia...
...hormones known to be secreted by the ductless glands thyroxin from the thyroid and epinephrin from the suprarenal have been reduced to purity...
...Hickey directs our attention to a striking example. In "The New Criminology" (Liveright), by Dr. Max Schlapp and Edward H. Smith, the authors attribute criminal propensities and acts to a congenitally faulty endocrinal condition that is to something wrong with the various ductless glands of the body, owing to an unfortunate heredity. And this evil inheritance the writers unhesitatingly trace to the prenatal environment. If women are suffering from grave emotional or physical stresses during the period of expectant motherhood the result is an endocrine disturbance which again results in physically and mentally defective offspring, and so at last...
...Association of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (TIME, Oct. 4), described: in Berlin, the construction of two complete railway trains out of aluminum alloyed with lithium, which weighs one-fifth as much as aluminum and adds tensile strength; in Amsterdam, the isolation and administration of a specific hormone (ductless gland secretion) responsible for the physiology of female animals, by Professor Edward Laqueur, who called his find "menformon." The effect upon female laboratory animals: restored typical mating reactions in spayed (sterilized) specimens; enlarged organs; sped up physiological reactions. Administered to males, it did not affect physiological reactions but shrank organs, this...