Word: ductless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doctors attribute his precocity to some defect in his pineal gland. This ductless gland, apparently the rudiment of a third eye,* lies in among the interior folds of the brain. Its functions are not well understood. One thing it certainly does is to inhibit sexual development of chilrendren. Because all the ductless glands of the body delicately control and balance one another's forces, when one acts abnormally as in Clarence Kehr's case, or in Harold Arnold's case (see col. 2), it incites a physiological riot. Clarence Kehr's parents plan to appeal...
Epileptoid types: tending to have epileptic convulsions, hysterical fits, sudden bursts of temper, head aches (migraine); diseases of the brain itself and of the ductless glands, rarely cancer...