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...windfall ($24,460, half the prize) would come in handy. The award was for Houssay's studies of the pituitary, the tiny gland at the base of the brain. He had shown that pituitary hormones, like messengers from a general staff headquarters, control the activity of all other ductless glands in the body. He had also discovered that pituitary secretions play a part in diabetes...
Swedenborg, inventor of a mercury air pump, a stove, an ear trumpet, believer in the feasibility of airplanes, submarines, machine guns, investigator of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands, was ahead of his time in nearly every scientific field. He believed he talked with angels and spirits, made excursions through Heaven and Hell, received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Though he spent nearly 30 years before his death (date of which he predicted accurately in a letter to Methodist John Wesley) in writing theological works in Latin, he had no intention of founding a church...
...motor to clinics, boarding homes, or other destinations, have after questioning confessed in a number of instances that they knew all about this sort of experience. They had observed it in themselves many times. Surely a stimulus of this strength would produce profound changes in the functioning of the ductless glands, a restoration of the normal balance in cases of earlier unbalance...
...before Kant and LaPlace, anticipated all Scandinavian geologists in his studies of paleontology, was first to explain the phenomenon of phosphorescence, beat modern physicists by 150 years with his molecular magnetic theory and modern physiologists with his discoveries concerning the nature and activity of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands...
...shuffling the hormones of many creatures, he found that the seat of Graves's Disease is in the pituitary gland, a chestnut-sized nugget lying midway between the temples. Through its many hormones the pituitary in one way or another manages the activities of practically all the other ductless glands. One of the pituitary's hormones, Professor Loeb found, specifically excites the thyroid and causes the eyes of a victim of Graves's Disease to bulge. With the specific hormone known, endocrinologists at once set themselves to invent ways of restraining its influence...